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Note: This small oinochoe, found in Etruria (central Italy), marks a highpoint in Corinthian pottery, and the sophistication of Late Protocorinthian (c.620BC) - the use of multiple colors (polychromy), incised lines, and narrative scenes. The scene here is the earliest known depiction of the hoplite phalanx - that is, whereas individual hoplites had appeared before, this scene gives the first evidence of organized troop-lines/columns in battle.

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