Sculpture of the Orientalizing period was profoundly affected by technical and stylistic influences from the East. In about 700 bce, the Greeks learned from their Eastern neighbours how to use molds to mass-produce clay relief plaques. Widely adopted, this technique helped to establish in Greece a convention for figure representation, even in freestanding, unmolded sculptures. Eastern influence is seen in the frontal pose with solid patterned hair and drapery rendered in a stylistic manner. The adoption of this convention, which came to be known as Daedalic style (after Daedalus, the legendary craftsman of Crete, where the style especially flourished), put ...(100 of 41048 words)