Meillacoid

One of two ceramic series (the other being Chicoid) which emerged from the Ostinoid series. Originating in Haiti, it remained largely confined to the western Greater Antilles, although there was some expansion to the west and north. Sites are normally village shell middens, but are often close to...

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Meillacoid

Leiwen

[lei-wen]. A cast background pattern of fine spirals, round or angular, used to set off the motifs in the decoration of Chinese bronze ritual vessels, chiefly those of the Anyang and Western Zhou periods (i.e. cl3th-9th centuries bc). See taotie.

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Leiwen

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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Jellinge Style

An art form that takes its name from the Viking site at Jellinge. Much Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian art from the 9th century until the mid-11th century is characterized by animal ornament and zoomorphic motifs, which are usually disjointed, stylized and entirely abstract. This kind of decoration ...

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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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Grey Ware

The typical ceremonial ceramic ware of Monte Alban, Mexico, is of a fine grey paste and first occurs in the middle PreClassic. Grey ware occurs throughout the site’s occupation and variations in shape and ornamentation, rather than colour, are the best indicators of change over time. A distinctiv...

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Grey Ware

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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Gallinazo

A culture that flourished in the Viru Valley in Peru between c200 bc and ad 200 (see Early Intermediate Period). Together with the slightly earlier Salinar, the Gallinazo culture is seen as transitional from ChaviN-associated groups, such as Cupis-nique, to the rise of the Moche state. Some decor...

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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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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

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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Coyotlatelco

A ceramic horizon of the Early Post-Classic Period which begins to occur in central Mexican Mesoamerica following the fall of Teotihuacan. A distinctive red-on-buff painted ware, it appears in the early phases of both Tula and Cholula, and is a forerunner of the late Mazapan style.

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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

Carination

A sharp angle in the profile of a pottery or metal vessel.

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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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Barrancoid

[Barrancas]. One of the major ceramic series developed by Irving Rouse and José Cruxent to facilitate cultural comparison in the northeast South America / Antilles area. Possibly originating on the Caribbean coast of Colombia, the series was established on the Orinoco Delta by cl000 bc and contin...

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Barrancoid

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

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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Arauquinoid

One of the ceramic series developed by Irving Rouse and José Cruxent to facilitate cultural comparison in the Venezuela/Antilles area. Characterized by soft-textured, grey-coloured vessels tempered with spicules of freshwater sponge, the series flourished in the Orinoco basin from c500 to cl500 a...

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Arauquinoid

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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