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protogeometric

adj · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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adj

Meaning 1

Of or relating to a style of Ancient Greek pottery led by Athens and produced between roughly 1030 and 900 BCE, decorated with purely abstract elements, often with broad horizontal bands about the neck and belly and concentric circles applied with compass and multiple brush.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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adjective satellite

Meaning 2

characteristic of the earliest phase of geometric art especially in Greece

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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History

Etymology

From proto- + geometric.