Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Styles and Periods Facet
3. Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)
4. [styles, periods, and cultures by region]
5. Early Western World
6. Mediterranean (Early Western World)
7. Aegean
8. Aegean periods
9. Ancient Greek (culture or style)
10. Archaic (Greek culture or period)

Anotations

Scope note:

Refers to the first phase of the Greek Archaic period, from around 660 BCE to around 580 BCE. It is characterized in sculpture by the creation of more large-scale stone sculpture than in earlier periods, and by a style that is close to the Egyptian prototypes. In vase painting it is characterized by the Black-figure method used to depict more naturalistic figures than those of the Orientalizing period.