Why is there still so much Ancient Greek pottery in pretty good condition when most other objects from that era didn’t survive?

Question

Why is there still so much Ancient Greek pottery in pretty good condition when most other objects from that era didn’t survive?

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Answer 1

Maybe survivorship bias.

The ancient Greek pottery that survived, survived. Probably only the better stuff survived for a while. Probably only the best of the best survived for an extremely long time.

Well, it’s been a long time. An extremely long time. What currently exists now may not be representative of typical stuff at the time way back then since we are probably only seeing the best of the best.