These would have been inscriptions either on pottery, which the earliest ones are,or on stone, but otherwise I'm sure there was writing on perishable material-wooden plaques, probably not yet paper, but these would have been destroyed.

有些是刻在陶器上的铭文,最早期的时候,是刻在石头上的,但另外,我能肯定,有些是写在易腐蚀的材质,比如木头,或者瓷片上的,当时应该还没有出现纸,但是这些都被毁坏了

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I would say that the crux, the kernel of the critique, a lot of things you can argue about-- The kernel of the critique lies in this assertion which derives its force from an interpretation of pictures on pottery.

其症结所在,批判思想的核心,很多事情都可以争论,核心在于一种论断,该论断是从彩釉的画面中,得到启示的

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In the same period,there is clear-cut,unmistakable, oriental influence on Greek pottery and other things that they make.

在同一时期,有明显的证据表明,希腊受到了东方的影响,这表现在他们制作的陶器和其他器物上

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These would be the very earliest kinds of pots that have geometric designs on them, then comes the geometric period and the orientalizing period; all of these refer to pottery styles.

这些是非常早期的陶锅,上面有一些几何形的图案,之后是"几何时期"和"东方风格"时期,这些都是根据陶器的艺术风格划分的

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So what we have is on the pottery.

所以我们能看到的是陶器上的

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