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Samian Ware
See terra sigillata.
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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...
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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.
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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...
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Northern Black Polished Ware
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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).
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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...
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Globular Amphora
Type of pottery vessel which has given its name to a Late Neolithic or Copper Age culture of the 3rd millennium be in much of Germany and Poland and extending into the western USSR. It is characterized by single burials, often in stone cists under barrows, usually accompanied by the characteristi...
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Forum Ware
Distinctive green glazed pottery that came to light in the 19th-century excavations of the forum in Rome. This ware has since been found on many sites close to Rome, and in settlements of all types in southern Etruria. It typically comprises pitchers, often with incised wavy-line decoration aroun...
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Food Vessel
The name given to a series of pottery vessels of the earlier Bronze Age in northern Britain and Ireland. They are normally found in burials under round cairns, and are more frequently associated with inhumation than cremation. Associated vessels include plano-convex flint knives and, sometimes, c...
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Eridu
The most southerly and possibly also the earliest city of Sumer in southern Mesopotamia. A sounding excavated underneath a ziggurat of the late 3rd millennium BC revealed a sequence of 18 religious buildings. The earliest building was a simple mud-brick shrine resting on virgin sand. By the time ...
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Konnakis Painter
Apulia'dan Yunan vazo ressamı, yaklaşık olarak İ.Ö. 375-350 yıllarında çalışmıştır.
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Konnakis Painter
In the period from about 375 to 350 B.C., the Konnakis Painter decorated vases in one of the Greek colonies in the region of Apulia in South Italy. He appears to have been one of the creators of the type of pottery that scholars call Gnathian ware. In this technique, the artisan glazed the entire...
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Konnakis Painter
Greek vase painter from Apulia, ca. 375-350 BCE.
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Konnakis Painter
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Culture
As used by archaeologists, the term has two separate meanings. In the more general sense it refers to everything that man does that derives from ‘nurture rather than nature’ (V.G. Childe), that is, behaviour that is learned rather than genetically controlled. An alternative definition of culture ...
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Krater
Originally a vessel for the mixing of wine with water, the normal custom in antiquity. In the study of classical Greek vases, the term is usually applied to a fairly large vessel with deep round bowl and wide mouth, standing on a broad base. The classification is normally subdivided into four typ...
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Corded Ware
A culture found over large parts of the north European plain in the earlier 3rd millennium BC. The characteristic pottery, which has given its name to the culture, is decorated with twisted cord impressions; the most common forms are beakers and amphorae. Associated characteristics are stone batt...
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Cistercian Ware
A distinctive 15th-16th-century manganese glazed ware commonly associated with Cistercian sites in preReformation times. This type of pottery marks a break with earlier traditions of lead glazed wares, and the various forms were produced in many kilns. Production was concentrated in Yorkshire, an...
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Chiozza
Neolithic settlement site in Emilia, northern Italy, of the later 5th or early 4th millennium be. The only structural remains were oval and circular pits, possibly the floors of sunken huts, but more probably storage pits. Pottery was of the square-mouthed type and indeed the term Chiozza is some...
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Chancay
Cultural entity which arose in the Late Intermediate Period in the northern area of the Peruvian central coast. Found in the Huara, Chancay, Ancon and Chillon valleys, it is characterized especially by a unique black-on-white pottery style. It has a white (often yellowish) slip and black line geo...
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Céramique Onctueuse
Distinctive type of medieval pottery made in western Brittany. Céramique onctueuse is typically very soft and has an unusual tempering material, talc, which only occurs in a small region of Finistère. It was first made in the 10th century and production of fish-platters and bowls continued until ...
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Céramique Onctueuse
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Carination
A sharp angle in the profile of a pottery or metal vessel.
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Bubanj-Hum
A poorly understood group dated to the late 4th to early 3rd millennia be in the Morava valley of eastern Yugoslavia. The eponymous site, on a gravel terrace of the Nisava river outside Nis, was excavated by Garasanin in the 1950s. Four main periods are recognized, after surface finds of the earl...
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Bubanj-Hum
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Belverde
A site of the Apennine Bronze Age near Cetona in Tuscany, central Italy. It may have been a ritual site, as it is characterized by rocks carved to form tiers of seats, as well as into other shapes. Moreover, complete pottery vessels filled with carbonized grain, acorns and beans had been placed i...
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Bell Beaker
See Beaker.
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Banpo
[Pan-p’o]. Site of an early Yangshao Neolithic village, now preserved as a museum, at Xi’an in Shaanxi province, China. Four radiocarbon dates from Banpo range from c4800 to o4300 bc. The settlement occupied about 50,000 square metres and included a cemetery and pottery kilns outside a ditch that...
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Bambata
A cave in the Matopo Hills of southwestern Zimbabwe, where excavations have revealed a long sequence of occupations probably covering most of the past 50,000 years. The cave walls also bear an interesting series of rock paintings. The site has given its name to a stone industry and a pottery type...
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Bambata
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Badorf Ware
Distinctive type of pottery dating to the later 8th century and the 9th century, made in the Vorgebirge hills west of Cologne. The pottery was probably produced in the typical cream fabric as early as the 7 th century, but the globular pitchers and bowls of the Carolingian period are the best kno...
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Askos
[Greek: ‘bag’]. An oil-jug. Normally squat in shape, with convex top and arching handle. Examples are sometimes rather unbalanced with eccentric mouth. As with aryeallos, the term perhaps transfers from earlier leather artefacts.
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Arretine Ware
See Arretium; terra
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Andenne Ware
An important medieval glazed ware made at and near Andenne on the River Meuse. The potters at Andenne produced ordinary unglazed wares as well as finer pitchers and bowls, but it is the latter which were widely traded around Western Europe from the late 11th century to the 14th century.
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Amphora
A large two-handled storage jar, made of plain pottery, with a rather plump cross-section. The neck and mouth of the pot are narrow, while at the base there is either a conventional platform, fairly broad and thick for stability, or, perhaps more frequently, a blunt-pointed taper, to facilitate s...
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Askos
The Athenian askos (pl. askoi) is a small, round vessel with a flat bottom and an over-arching handle that joins the obliquely-angled neck. There is little room for extensive decoration, and often a pair of figures suffices. The Greek word askos refers to the bags made of animal-skin that were u...
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Askos
Kandillere yağ koymak için kullanılan bir kap tipi. Yüksekliği 7-20 cm arasında olabilen askos, sığ bir çanak biçimindedir ve üstü bombelidir. Yüksek kemer kulpu, çaydanlıklardaki gibi gövdeye bitiştiği bir uçta emzikle bütünleşir. Kuş, başka hayvanlar ve ıstakoz kıskacı biçiminde örnekleri de va...
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Hydria
Μια μορφή ελληνικού δοχείου νερού; ένα μεγάλο βάζο ή κανάτα για μεταφορά νερού με δύο ή τρεις λαβές. Το σώμα ήταν βολβοειδές, ο λαιμός γύρος.
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Hydria
Yunan uygarlığında Arkaik ve Klasik Dönemlerde kullanılan büyük su kabı. Hem siyah figürlü, hem de kırmızı figürlü teknikle bezenmiş örnekleri vardır. Özelliği üç kulplu olmasıdır. Bu kulplardan yanlardaki yatay iki tanesi hydriayı kaldırmaya, boynundaki düşey olan üçüncüsü de içini boşaltmak içi...
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Arystichos
L'arystichos et l'aryster étaient des vases servant à puiser, principalement dans les amphores. On les nommait également ephebos, parce que les jeunes garçons étaient chargés, dans les festins, de mêler l'eau et le vin avant de les servir aux convives. Ce terme a encore pour synonymes aruter, aru...
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Arystichos
The arystichos was also used for serving from the krater, a usage which gave rise to several other shapes.
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