Greek Drinking Bowls

Ancient Greece is well known for many things including historical sites, famous philosophers, scientist, poets, the Olympic games and also they are wildly known for creating the first democracy. For my museum research paper I went to the Getty Museum in Malibu, I observed two different pairs of conical drinking bowls from ancient Greece in the Eastern Mediterranean from 175-75 B.C. These conical drinking bowls are a significant part of the Greek’s society because they were used by many, including aristocrats but they also are being an essential part of the Greeks everyday life. The bowls conveyed many important aspects of society such as; class differences, gender, and the material worlds of Greece.
The design of the silver conical drinking bowls had a very luxurious look to them. One of the conical bowls was more thick and in an upright position, it was also stretched resembling the top of a wine glass. The other bowl was of similar design made of the same material of silver as well, this drinking bowl was shaped more like a rounded large bowl and
My definition on history didn’t really change much but I enjoyed seeing these artifacts in front of me in a way that made all of the history seem so real. I have a new found appreciation for history and for museums I often times brushed off history and museums but I felt like history and museums have a lot more to offer. I saw a lot of artifacts about other societies that really interested me and made me want to maybe go back and take a tour and learn a lot more about history. I also started to get really interested about how one-day people are going to look at our artifacts the way we look and past artifacts and they are also going to try to more deeply take a view on at what we left