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Ceramic tiles were not normally used for flooring in Roman buildings, though opus signinum, a favoured flooring material, was composed of concrete and crushed tile, and carefully cut small squares from tiles were often used in mosaic floors, tesserae about 2–3 cm. square being used for plain borders, and smaller squares, about 1 cm., where a ...
An unguentarium (pl.: unguentaria), also referred to as balsamarium (pl.: balsamarii), lacrimarium (pl.: lacrimarii) or tears vessel, [1] is a small ceramic or glass bottle found frequently by archaeologists at Hellenistic and Roman sites, especially in cemeteries. [2]
Romano-British Pottery was produced from the 1st through the 5th centuries AD in Britain, during the period of occupation by the Roman Empire. [1] Before the invasion of the Romans, pottery in Britain was handmade and fired in a bonfire. The Romans introduced the new technology of fast potters wheels and kilns for firing.
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Some stuccoed examples derive from the western part of the Roman empire, the ancient regions of Hispania and Gaul (modern Spain and France). [9] The earliest Campana reliefs were made in the middle of the first century BC, during the final period of the Roman Republic, and they were most common in the first quarter of the first century AD. At ...
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The dolium was a large jug or container made of fired clay.Oval in shape, with a wide mouth and rim, it was much larger than the amphora, a similar pottery container.The dolium had no neck or handles and, in many cases, could measure up to six feet in height.