Skyphos

Yunan içki kabı, genellikle ağız kenarına yakın monte edilmiş iki yatay kulplu derin bir fincan.

archaeologsTurkishAncient 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. ...

archaeologsTurkishAncient Pottery

Yayoi

(1) A type of pottery named after a place in Tokyo where it was first identified in 1884; (2) an archaeological culture characterized by this pottery; (3) a period (approximately 300 bc — ad 300) when this culture predominated. In Japanese archaeology, the Yayoi period follows Jomon and precedes ...

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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.

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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...

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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, ...

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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...

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Brownware

A brown-glazed earthenware; pottery that fires to a brown or reddish color.

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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.

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Bombylos

A Greek or Roman vase so-called from the gurgling noise that the liquid made when pouring out of the narrow neck. [bombyle]

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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 ...

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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...

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B Ware

Ceramic amphorae of the east Mediterranean, from the 1st to the early 7th century ad and divided into four subgroups.

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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.

archaeologsTurkishAncient 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.

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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...

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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]

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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...

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Agateware

Any pottery that is veined and mottled to resemble agate.

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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.

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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 ...

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Abingdon Ware

A Neolithic pottery c. 3900-3200 bc found in a causewayed camp about 15 km south of Oxford, England. The pottery is fairly heavy and formed into round-bottomed bowls with frequentstroke decoration and some having handles.

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Abingdon Ware

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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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. ...

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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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Oculus

A decorative motif found on pottery, usually incised, consisting of double circles or spirals, resembling a pair of eyes. It occurs in the Spanish Copper Age, for instance at Los Millares, and is also found in Ireland and northern Europe in the late Neolithic. Indeed similar motifs occur in many ...

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Ochre-Coloured Pottery

An Indian pottery type, found in the Upper Ganges valley. It is a badly fired, thick red ware with an ochre wash and is normally found in very worn condition. The earliest date for the ware comes from Jodhpura in Rajasthan with an early 3rd millennium bc date, but in the upper Ganges Valley it ha...

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Ochre-Coloured 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.

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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

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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Mortar

A vessel, usually of stone but sometimes of other materials, used in conjunction with a pestle or grinder for crushing up food. Mortars were frequently made of special rocks, which might be traded over considerable distances. Much study has been devoted to the mortars of the medieval period in Eu...

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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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