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Although there were many types of fine pottery, for example drinking vessels in very delicate and thin-walled wares, and pottery finished with vitreous lead glazes, the major class is the Roman red-gloss ware of Italy and Gaul make, and widely traded, from the 1st century BC to the late 2nd century AD, and traditionally known as terra sigillata ...
Scholars of ancient Roman pottery (7 P) Pages in category "Ancient Roman pottery" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total.
Roman red gloss terra sigillata bowl with relief decoration Terra sigillata beaker with barbotine decoration. Terra sigillata is a term with at least three distinct meanings: as a description of medieval medicinal earth; in archaeology, as a general term for some of the fine red ancient Roman pottery with glossy surface slips made in specific areas of the Roman Empire; and more recently, as a ...
Matthew Fittock, an expert of ancient Roman ceramics, explained that “pipeclay figurines were mainly used by civilians for private religious practice in domestic shrines and occasionally in ...
Monte Testaccio (Italian pronunciation: [ˈmonte teˈstattʃo]) [1] or Monte Testaceo, also known as Monte dei Cocci, is an artificial mound in Rome composed almost entirely of testae (Italian: cocci), fragments of broken ancient Roman pottery, nearly all discarded amphorae dating from the time of the Roman Empire, some of which were labelled with tituli picti.
Archaeologists have unearthed a 2,000-year-old clay head that once belonged to a Roman figurine of the god Mercury. The unusual find provides new context about life in Roman Britain.