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Fikellura Ware Bir Arkaik Doğu Yunan siyah figürlü çanak çömlek tarzı. Rodos'ta Fikellura mezarlığında bulunmuştur; kaynağı Miletos'tur. ...Added by archaeologs | Turkish|Ancient Pottery

Skyphos Yunan içki kabı, genellikle ağız kenarına yakın monte edilmiş iki yatay kulplu derin bir fincan. Added by archaeologs | Turkish|Ancient Pottery

West Slope Ware Atina Akropolü'nün batı yamacında bulunan Helenistik dönem çanak çömlekleri, sade tasarımlarla dekore edilmişlerdir. Siyah-Parlak çanak çömleklerden evrimleşmiş ve beyaz ve sarı renkte bir miktar kesi barındırmaktadır. Korint ve Girit de üretim merkezleriydi. ...Added by archaeologs | Turkish|Ancient Pottery

Warendorf A migration period settlement located by the River Ems in Westphalia, West Germany. The excavations represent a palimpsest of individual phases which overlie each other, spanning the latter part of the 7th,8th and early 9th centuries. The excavations were carried out in the 1950s and uncovered a ...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery

Vase Support Name for a pottery pedestal or ring manufactured to support round-based pottery which would not stand up by itself on flat surfaces. The term is used especially in European prehistory to describe highly decorated incised examples from the French Neolithic Chassey culture.Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery

Urnfield An urnfield is a cemetery containing cremations placed in urns. The term Urnfield culture or cultures is used to describe the Late Bronze Age groups found over much of temperate Europe, who disposed of their dead in umfields. The Urnfield cultures are dated to C1300-800/700 bc, lasting even later...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery

Urewe Ware The characteristic Early Iron Age pottery type of the interlacustrine region of East Africa. There are good reasons, both typological and chronometric, for regarding Urewe ware as ancestral to the varied wares of the Early Iron Age complex further south. Named after a site in southwestern Kenya, ...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery, Place Names

Buckley Earthenware C. 1720-1775, North Wales. The body of this earthenware is quite coarse because of the combination of two different types of clay in the process. The ware is made of layers of pink-firing and yellow clays. The combination of the two clays served to make the poor clays more workable. The ware is d...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery

Brownware A brown-glazed earthenware; pottery that fires to a brown or reddish color.Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery

Bouffioulx Stoneware The Bouffioulx region has been producing ceramics for almost 500 years. Many artists contributed to the revival of the Bouffioulx genre in the first part of the 20th century when producing hand-thrown stoneware artworks, known today as the grès d’art of Bouffioulx.Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery

Black-Burnished Ware Culinary vessel forms made in two different fabrics and widely imitated. One was black, gritty, and handmade from c. ad 120 to the late 4th century ad . A second was more gray and finer, with a silvery finish, and wheel-thrown in the Thames Estuary area c. ad 140 to the mid 3rd century ad . [blac...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery

Black-And-Red Ware Any Indian pottery with black rims and interior and red on the outside, due to firing in the inverted position, which was made beginning in the Iron Age. Characteristic forms include shallow dishes and deeper bowls. It first appeared on late sites of the Indus civilization and was a standard feat...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery

Bell Beaker A type of pottery vessel found all over western and central Europe from the Final Neolithic or Chalcolithic, c. 25001800 bc . The culture’s name derives from the characteristic pottery, which looks like an inverted bell with globular body and flaring rim. The beakers were valuable and highly deco...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery

Belgic Pottery General term sometimes applied to the range of Late Iron Age wheel-turned pottery vessels found in southeastern England, especially Aylesford-Swarling pottery.Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery

Beacharra Ware Type of decorated Middle Neolithic pottery of western parts of Scotland. The ware is classified into three groups: (1) unornamented, bag-shaped bowls; (2) decorated, carinated bowls with a rim diameter less than the diameter at the carination and with incised or channeled ornament; and (3) small ...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery

Badorf Ware A type of pottery of the 8th to 9th centuries from the hills of Cologne, Germany. The globular pitchers and bowls of the Carolingian period are the best known. Badorf-ware kilns have been excavated at Bruhl-Eckdorf and Walberberg and products have been found in the Netherlands, eastern England, a...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery

B Ware Ceramic amphorae of the east Mediterranean, from the 1st to the early 7th century ad and divided into four subgroups.Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery

African Red Slip Ware Kuzey Afrika'da İ.S. 3. yüzyıldan 6. yüzyıla kadar yapılmış bir tür kırmızı parlak seramik. Parçalar damgalı süslemelere sahipti ve yaygın olarak ticareti yapılıp dağıldı.Added by archaeologs | Turkish|Ancient Pottery, Tools

African Red Slip Ware A type of red gloss pottery made in North Africa from the 3rd to 6th centuries ad. The pieces had stamped decoration and were widely distributed.Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery, Tools

Attic Black-Figure Ware Type of pottery made in the Attica region of southern Greece from about 720 bc Vase painters developed a characteristic style of decoration in which one or more friezes of human and animal figures are presented in silhouette in black against a red background. The delineation of the figures is som...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery

Askos An assymetrical vessel, often squat and duck-shaped, with an off-center mouth, convex top, and single arching handle. It was originally shaped like a leather bottle (uter) for holding water, oil, or wine. Some examples have two mouths, one for filling and one for emptying, and others are quite un...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery

Arystichos A Greek or Roman vessel for drawing water, especially from amphorae. [arusane, arustis, aruter, ephebos, oinerusis] a small Roman bronze coin, four of which made a sestertius and 16 made a denarius.Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery, Others

Arretine Ware A type of bright red, polished pottery originally made at Arretium (modern Arezzo) in Tuscany from the 1st century bc to the 3rd century ad The term means literally “ware made of clay impressed with designs.” The ware was produced to be traded, especially throughout the Roman Empire. It is clearl...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery

Argonne Ware Pottery type of the 4th century ad usually red. Vessels are decorated with horizontal bands of impressed geometric patterns, executed with a roller stamp. The ware was made in the Argonne, northeast Gaul. [Marne ware]Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery

Amphora A large Greek or Roman earthenware storage jar, with a narrow neck and mouth and two handles (“two-eared,” each called an anem) at the top. The body of the jar is usually oval and long, with a pointed bottom. It was used for holding or transporting liquids, especially wine or oil, and other subst...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery

Agateware Any pottery that is veined and mottled to resemble agate.Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery

Achzib Ware A Phoenician, Iron Age II, red-slip pottery type consisting primarily of jugs with a trefoil mouth of “mushroom” rims, red slipped, and highly burnished.Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery

Abydos Ware Pottery of Canaanite (Syro-Palestinian) origin found in the royal tombs of the 1st and 2nd dynasties (the Old Kingdom) at Abydos, Saqqara, Abusir el-Melek, and other sites in Upper Egypt, dating to the Early Bronze Age II (3300-2700 bc The pottery, often red-rose slipped and burnished or painted ...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery

Stroke-Ornamented Ware English name for the German Stichbandkeramik, which characterizes the Middle Neolithic culture in Central Europe (southern Poland, Czechoslovakia and parts of southern and central Germany). The pottery is decorated with geometric designs, especially zigzags, made by incision in a series of short ...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery

Stoneware Distinctively hard-fired vessels which were first made at Siegburg near Cologne as early as about 1200 ad. Stoneware involved the firing of pots in excess of 1100°C, at which point the molecules fuse to form a new stronger structure. Stonewares required particular clays, but the technique made po...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery

Stamnos Type of Classical Greek vase, similar in size to the amphora, and likewise used typically for the storage of wine. The stamnos, however, is more squat in form, with two horizontal handles. The shape is popular with Athenian Red-figure vase-painters in the period from about 525 to 400 bc, and in E...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery

Stamford Ware Some time during the 9th century the pottery industries centred in and around Stamford in Lincolnshire, central England, started producing the first AngloSaxon glazed ceramics. The Stamford industry, which operated until the 13th century, specialized in glazed, buff fine wares including character...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery

Situla Bucket-shaped vessel made of pottery or sheet bronze. Metal examples, possibly used for serving wine, were common in the Hallstatt Iron Age of temperate Europe and among related groups in northern Italy. Highly decorated situlae were produced in northeast Italy and traded to other areas (see Este...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery

Shindo A small spur projecting southwards into the valley of the Kyi Chu River about 8 km east of Lhasa, the capital of Tibet. P. Aufschnaiter discovered and excavated a group of burials there in 1950. He distinguished three phases, each occurring at a different level on the ridge. The first, Horizon A,...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery

Sgraffito Ware Glazed vessels prepared first by incising decorations into their surfaces, and then by the addition of paint into these incisions prior to the application of glaze. The result is a fine contrast between the decoration, which is usually bright in colour, and the overall tone of the glazed vessel. ...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery

Samian Ware See terra sigillata.Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery

Saintonge Ware A major pottery industry existed in the region of Saintes in western France from the 13th century until recent times. The best-known of these wares are the tall jugs with polychrome glazed decoration which appear to have been traded with western French wine to the English from about 1300. These p...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery

Nuzi [modem Yorgan Tepe]. A tell near Kirkuk in northern Iraq. Excavations in the 1920s explored levels of the mid-2nd millennium bc. A palace and private houses of the 15 th to 14th centuries bc were excavated and finds include some 20,000 clay tablets, mostly recording business transactions.Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery

Northern Black Polished Ware An Indian pottery type found on Iron Age sites of the 1st millennium bc. It is a hard, wheel-made, metallic-looking ware with a shiny black surface; the chief forms are bowls and dishes. It suceeds Painted Grey ware in the Ganges sequence and is the main pottery type associated with the Ganges ci...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery

Northern Black Polished Ware Added by archaeologs | Ancient Pottery

Nene Valley Ware Type of fine pottery, also known as ‘Castor’, first made around Water Newton (Roman Durobrivae), and appearing from around 150 ad. It is a local ware, made in imitation of the dark, glossy Rhenish wares, and was perhaps the first fine ware to be produced locally in Roman Britain. Its popularity l...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery

Nderit Ware First discovered at Stable’s Drift on the Nderit River, south of Lake Nakuru in the central Rift Valley of Kenya, Nderit ware is a widespread but poorly understood variety of pottery which may pre-date the main florescence of the Pastoral Neolithic in southern Kenya. It is characterized by finely...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery

Nana Mode An Iron Age village site in the Central African Republic, dated to about the 7th century ad. Small-scale excavations have revealed pottery decorated by means of a carved wooden roulette. It has been suggested that this type of pottery may have been made by speakers of an Ubangian language.Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery

Miraflores A complex of cultural materials which define a phase (100 bc — ad 200) of Highland Mayan sites in the Late Pre-Classic (see Kaminaljuyu). Characteristic artefacts include engraved soft stone and engraved monochrome ceramic vessels and ‘mushroom stones’ (hollow stones set in an annular base and ca...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery

Lake Mangakaware Pa A Maori lake-edge fortification (pa) in the Waikato District, North Island, New Zealand. The site has produced one of the most complete Classic Maori settlement plans known (dated 15001800), with remains of palisades, houses, a central open space (marae), and many wooden objects from the adjacent...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery

Lachish The biblical city of Lachish has been identified as the site of the large tell of Tell ed Duweir, west of Hebron in southern Israel. Early excavations in the 1930s were brought to a halt by the tragic murder by bandits of the director, J.L. Starkey, in 1938. New excavations in the 1970s were cond...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery

Ipswich Ware Proficiently made type of pottery produced between the 7th and 9th centuries in Ipswich, Suffolk, where kiln debris has been found. The cooking pots and undecorated pitchers were distributed widely around East Anglia, while stamp-decorated pitchers were traded as far as York and Richborough. This...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery

Impressed Ware Type of pottery that characterizes cultures in the central and west Mediterranean (Yugoslavia, Italy, Sicily, Malta, Sardinia, Corsica, southern France, Spain, Portugal and north Africa) fromcóOOO be to c4000 be, or later in some areas. The pottery is dark-surfaced and is decorated with impressio...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery

Hydria [Greek hydor. ‘water’]. Like the kalpis, this is a Greek pot for carrying water. Wider and usually lower than the amphora, the shape was typically broad, with well-defined foot and neck, two horizontal handles (for carrying), and one vertical handle (for pouring).Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery

Grooved Ware A British late Neolithic pottery type, its flat-based vessels having straight vertical or outward sloping walls. It is decorated with shallow grooving or sometimes with applied cordons. It was formerly called Rinyo-Clacton ware after two widely separated findspots (Clacton in Essex and Rinyo in t...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Pottery

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