As a painting by itself should be an adequate vehicle for what the artist wishes to convey, there's not much point enlisting the assistance of verbalisation. With inscriptions a painting sometimes ceases to be a pure work of pictorial art.
Despite its costumes and its gestures, it is not really a pictorial art.
Greek pottery:Pottery made in ancient Greece. Its painted decoration has become the primary source of information about the development of Greek pictorial art.
