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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Pottery of any sort is one of the most durable materials known to man. We’ve got pots that are a *lot* older than the classical Greek period. Also, pottery was frequently used as a grave good, so you’ve got a super-durable material that’s being intentionally (carefully!) buried and left alone. Finally, finding a truly intact one is pretty exceptional. If you look closely, you’ll find that most (maybe all) of those pots were excavated in pieces and then reconstructed.
Go look up the Portland Vase. It’s a *glass* vase from the first century that somehow remained basically intact until a drunken ~~English~~ British twit threw a statue at the case it was stored in, shattering it completely, in 1845.
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