�@The main production site of Krete was at Knossos and the Orientalizing introduced around c.700 can be divided into two period [1]. They were influenced by Cypriot pottery, which is shown on perfume jars decorated with concentric circles. The only figure on their vessles is a bird, which is also taken from Cypriot pottery. Different from this pottery decorated with many colours, however, Kretan workshops used a few colours. The vessels are generally decorated with floral patters, such as of lotus or rosettes.

Kretan workshops in the Geometric period produced large pithoi covered with cream-white slip and decorated with red and blue. Since this style was not applied to other shapes, these pithoi were probably made for burials.

Technique of potting developed in the late Orientalizing period, and the Fortetsa Painter drew complicated floral patterns as miniaturist [2]. Some alabastra with style similar to Protocorinthian were produced.

Painted vases were also made outside Knossos. Workshops at Arkades (modern At Afrati) copied Knossian pottery and produced a dinos with three Griffin-heads and oinochoai. A large pyxis has a goddess with relief head and painted body. At Kommos many cups decorated with engraved lines over black background were made [3].

Kretan workshops also produced figured vases in shape of animals, such as owls or lions holding a bowl with forelegs. They also made small jars with human heads of Daedalic style.

The production, however, declined in the sixth century and only some large vases with simple decoration which recalls Minoan pottery were produced.