Materials, one of my biggest wonderings and questions. In Ancient Greece, sculpture materials were limited due to the fact that people didn't have the technology we have today so they couldn't get hard to find and difficult to use materials. Greeks used many different types of materials to create sculptures, but the most popular were marble, bronze, terracotta, wood, and other calcareous rocks. Although you would also find sculptures made of clay, limestone, or stone. Clay was very brittle so many things haven't survived till today. Stone, marble, and limestone were very abundant in Greece, but limestone was more fragile and could crack. Also marble was extremely expensive and easier to sculpt with. In Italian, "Terra-cotta" means baked earth and it is a clay based ceramic. Bronze is a metal that during wars people melted sculptures made out of it to use the material for weapons. To paint these items and create paintings, depending on the period of time and location of Greece, Greeks used tempera or encaustic paints, but over time many other resources were used to paint with.