ABSTRACT
Corinth, at the beginning of this period, had already grown to the size of a major city; and by 700 B.C. she had become the foremost commercial power in Greece. Her fine-walled painted pottery, outstanding for its technical skill, was then being exported overseas to all the chief centres of the Greek homeland, and had begun to influence many other local Geometric styles. A few Corinthian pots were reaching the Levantine shores; but a far greater quantity was being shipped to the new Greek colonies in southern Italy and eastern Sicily, while some were purchased by Phoenician colonists as far afield as Carthage, western Sicily, and the Mediterranean coast of Spain.
