 The vase was found at Cerveteri in Italy and illustrates the blinding of Polyphemus by Odysseus and his companions.From the mid-8th century BC, the closer contact between Greece and the East enriched the ceramic art with new subjects – such as lions, panthers, imaginary beings, rosettes, palmettes, lotus flowers etc.– that led to the Orientalizing Period style, in which the pottery style of Corinth distinguished.