Eastern cultural influences from Asia Minor, Egypt and Ancient Near East. Plant motifs, flower motifs, geometric motifs, African motifs. Explanation: Greek pottery has borrowed forms and decoration from a Mycenaean tradition. The first motifs that they used were geometric motifs such as circles or triangles.
Some cultural influences that can be see in the Greek pottery is the Orientalizing Style, this developed in Greek pottery because there was more trade and colonization was expanding farther. Some motif's seen is animals, mythological creatures, humans, and gods.
