Pre-Christian crosses on oinochoe, wine jug in Greek pottery

Turkish Museums, Archaeological Museum of Izmir, Turkey

"Oinochoe" is a wine jug of ancient greek pottery. This "oinochoe", dated 620 - 610 BC, was designed with a cross with four squares on the side. Another design is a circle with ten small circles and rays in between representing a solar disc. There are also other different crosses and solar discs all derived geometrically. All are pre-Christian crosses.

It is located at Archaeological Museum of Izmir, Turkey.

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Pre-Christian crosses on oinochoe, wine jug in Greek pottery, dated 620 - 610 B.C., located at Archaeological Museum of Izmir, Turkey

Taken on Sunday 06th of October 2013

Device: OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP.

Model: u1030SW,S1030SW

Genre: 620 - 610 B.C.

Source: Izmir, Turkey

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