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    Pottery was produced in enormous quantities in ancient Rome, mostly for utilitarian purposes. It is found all over the former Roman Empire and beyond...
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    have considered to be of the highest quality.[citation needed] Ancient Roman pottery was not a luxury product, but a vast production of "fine wares"...
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    Ancient Egyptian pottery includes all objects of fired clay from ancient Egypt. First and foremost, ceramics served as household wares for the storage...
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    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 description...
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    potters' clay sources, which led to the early development of fine Ancient Roman pottery, especially African Red Slip terra sigillata tableware and clay...
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  • April 2022, an Egyptian archaeological expedition discovered an ancient Roman pottery workshop at the Tibet-Matrouh site, west of Alexandria. In May 2022...
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    Oil lamp (redirect from Ancient oil lamp)
    Abhinav Publications. ISBN 8170173833. Bailey, D. M. (1972). Greek and Roman Pottery Lamps. British Museum. ISBN 0-7141-1237-2. Excellent introductory booklet...
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    Renaissance literature, paintings and vase-paintings of ancient Greece and Ancient Roman pottery. Though homoeroticism can differ from the interpersonal...
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    use of caryatids. Ancient Roman pottery Classical sculpture Gallo-Roman art History of sculpture Roman art Roman engineering Roman technology Hennig,...
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    Titulus pictus (category Ancient Roman pottery)
    destination, type of product, and owner. Tituli picti are frequent on ancient Roman pottery containers used for trade. They were not exclusively used for trade...
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    Monte Testaccio (category Ancient Roman pottery)
    (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...
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    Pottery, due to its relative durability, comprises a large part of the archaeological record of ancient Greece, and since there is so much of it (over...
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    Barbotine (category Ancient Roman pottery)
    Crete in present-day Greece includes a barbotine pottery style, and it is common in Ancient Roman pottery, where the colour may often be the same as the...
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    African red slip ware (category Ancient Roman pottery)
    African Red Slip or ARS, is a category of terra sigillata, or "fine" Ancient Roman pottery produced from the mid-1st century AD into the 7th century in the...
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    Roman Antiquity", Ancient Society 38 (2008), passim. Laes, Child Slaves at Work in Roman Antiquity, pp. 241–242. Laes, Child Slaves at Work in Roman Antiquity...
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    tools. During the Roman and early Byzantine period, the Levant was on the edge of the enormous territories where ancient Roman pottery was produced and...
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    Pottery in the Indian subcontinent has an ancient history and is one of the most tangible and iconic elements of Indian art. Evidence of pottery has been...
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    ancient Rome Ancient Roman pottery Roman glass Roman mosaic Literature Augustan literature Augustan poetry Music of ancient Rome Painting of ancient Rome...
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  • measurement Ancient Roman bathing Ancient Roman pottery Ancient Roman units of measurement Ancient borough Ancient document Ancient economic thought Ancient filipino...
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    adopted by Roman architecture and are still followed in some modern buildings. It used a vocabulary of ornament that was shared with pottery, metalwork...
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    Hans Dragendorff (category Scholars of ancient Roman pottery)
    who introduced the first classification system for the type of Ancient Roman pottery known as Samian ware or Terra sigillata, in 1896, using type numbers...
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    Colchester Vase (category Romano-British pottery)
    1 kilogram and is made of coarse local clay. It is a variant of Ancient Roman pottery, called black ware, which was used primarily for storage or cooking...
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    cooking pot or a dish in the sense of cuisine. In the typology of ancient Roman pottery, the olla is a vessel distinguished by its rounded "belly", typically...
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    of ancient and prehistoric periods, pottery often means only vessels, and sculpted figurines of the same material are called terracottas. Pottery is one...
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    Templeborough in South Yorkshire. Ancient Roman pottery and coins discovered in the village itself give clear evidence of extended Roman occupation. By the 11th...
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    styles continued into the Roman period, and Greek influence, partly transmitted via the Ancient Etruscans, on Ancient Roman pottery was considerable, especially...
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    Slipware (category Types of pottery decoration)
    slip is applied to the whole body, for example most fine wares in Ancient Roman pottery, such as African red slip ware (note: "slip ware" not "slipware")...
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    Mortarium (category Ancient Roman pottery)
    A mortarium (pl. "mortaria") was one of a class of Ancient Roman pottery kitchen vessels. They are bowls with thick sides that were likely used for crushing...
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    Campana reliefs (category Ancient Roman pottery)
    Campana reliefs (also Campana tiles) are Ancient Roman terracotta reliefs made from the middle of the first century BC until the first half of the second...
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    Glirarium (category Ancient Roman pottery)
    animals were considered a delicacy in the Etruscan period and later in the Roman Empire. The container consists of a vessel, usually in terracotta, perforated...
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