Arystichos

The arystichos was a vase used for drawing wine out of the kraters.

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Arystichos

Özellikle amforalardan su çekmek için kullanılan küçük bir Yunan veya Roma kabı.

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Patera

Antik Roma'da, genellikle bronz, uzun saplı ve boşaltma dökme işlemleri için kullanılan yuvarlak bir kase. Ritüellerde sıklıkla kullanılırdı.

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Caccabus

CAC´CABUS less correctly CACABUS, a cooking-pot. The statement of Varro, L. L. 5.127, “vas ubi coquebant cibum, ab eo caccabum appellarunt,” may be accepted in proof of the meaning of the word, however absurd as an etymology. The Greek forms κακκάβη and κάκκαβος both occur in the Comic Fragments,...

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Caccabus

Her türlü yemeği pişirmek için kullanılan bir tür Yunan veya Roma tenceresi-kabı. Bronz, gümüş veya topraktan yapılmış ve çeşitli formları vardı. En yaygın şekli, üst kısmında küçük bir açıklık bulunan ve şekli yumurtayı andıran şekildir. Saç ayağı üzerinde dururdu.

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Stamnos

Su, yağ ve şarap depolamada kullanılan kap türlerinden biri. Hydria ile benzerlikler göstermekle birlikte, gövdesi yumurta biçimli, yüksek omuzlu, kısa boyunlu, geniş ağızlı, iki yatay ilmek kulplu ve alçak ayaklıdır. Stamnosların kapaklı örnekleri de vardır.

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Stamnos

The stamnos (pl. stamnoi; possibly connected with Greek histemi - I set up) is a broad-shouldered, round-shaped vessel, with a low foot and a low neck. Its two horizontal handles usually curl upwards to some degree. It is produced from the late sixth century into the later fifth. Most have been f...

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Urewe Ware

Characteristic Early Iron Age pottery type of the interlacustrine region of East Africa: southwest Kenya, northwest Tanzania, Rwanda, east Zaire, and south Uganda. It dates from the last centuries BC to the first centuries AD and is the name of a tradition of the Chifumbaze complex. Urewe ware wa...

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Urewe Ware

Mazapan Ware

A ceramic style developing out of Coyotlatelco and first appearing in association with major architecture at Tula, Mexico in the post-Classic Toltec phase (9th-12th century AD). The orange-on-buff (or red-on-buff) pottery was decorated by straight or wavy parallel lines produced by multiple brushes.

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Mazapan Ware

Mug

A large cup, typically cylindrical and with a handle

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Mug

Lydion

In Greek antiquity, a type of pot for perfumes. Numerous examples have been found in Lydia, western Turkey, and Athens.

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Lydion

Mocha Ware

A pottery ware of the late 18th through the early 20th centuries, ornamented with colored glaze worked into branchlike patterns by drops of a diffusing agent applied while the glaze is still wet.

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Mocha Ware

B Ware

A range of ceramic amphorae originating at a range of source areas in the east Mediterranean. They date from the 1st to the early 7th century AD, although in Britain they date mainly to the later part of their currency. Divided into four subgroups, Bi-Biv. Bi are characteristic of sub-Roman sites...

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B Ware

Arystichos

A Greek or Roman vessel for drawing water, especially from amphorae.

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Arystichos

Grayware

A usually undecorated ware of gray body.

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Grayware

Pre-Pottery Neolithic A

Palestinian village-based culture dated 8500-7600 BC, first defined at Jericho. It is derived from the Natufian culture, making use of and developing Natufian architecture (round houses). It offers evidence of first attempts at agriculture in the near East, though still in a hunting context.

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Pre-Pottery Neolithic A

Tating Ware

Distinctive type of ceramic pitcher probably made in the Rhineland during the 8th century AD. Readily recognizable because it was decorated with applied tin foil. Tating ware was widely traded to sites along the North Sea and English Channel coasts and beyond.

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Tating Ware

Abydos Ware

Pottery of Canaanite (Syro-Palestinian) origin found in the royal tombs of the First and Second Dynasties (The Old Kingdom) at Abydos, Saqqara, Abusir el-Melek, and other sites in Upper Egypt, dating to Early Bronze Age II (3300-2700 BCE). The pottery, often red-rose slipped and burnished or pain...

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Abydos Ware

Drawing

A primary forming technique for producing pottery vessels, similar to pinching, whereby the body is pulled upward from the center of a ball of tempered clay with thumb and fingers.

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Drawing

Potash-Lead Glass

Glass based on potash as a flux with high concentrations of lead. It is heavy, lustrous, and more refractive than other forms of glass.

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Potash-Lead Glass

Verwood Ware

Products of a medieval and later pottery industry based in the New Forest of southern England.

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Verwood Ware

Protome

Decorative motif in the form of a human or animal head.

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Protome

Crambeck Ware

A type of pottery made at Crambeck, North Yorkshire, which was widely distributed across the north of England and North Wales in the second half of the 4th century AD. Common types include cream-colored mortaria and parchment wares, imitation Samian forms, and a range of lead-grey kitchen wares.

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Crambeck Ware

Proto-Maiolica

A type of tin-glazed wares made in Sicily and southern Italy from shortly before 1200 until the 15th century. The appearance of these wares coincided with the importation of tin-glazed pottery from North Africa, particularly the Maghreb. The jugs and bowls were usually painted with various animal...

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Proto-Maiolica

Paffrath Ware

Hard-fired ware with a black finish, made from the 10th-11th centuries until the 13th century at Paffrath, near Cologne, Germany. The best-known products of this center are the so-called handled ladles - small cooking pots or bowls with a curved handle.

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Paffrath Ware

Tshikapa

A mining area and village in Zaire on the Kasai River where Early Iron Age pottery vessels of Urewe type were found in an undated context and without further archaeological associations. The discovery has been used as evidence for an early spread of Early Iron Age industries along the southern fr...

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Tshikapa

Nemset Vessel

A type of spouted vase or lustration vessel usually used in ritual contexts such as the opening of the mouth ceremony, which was a ritual intended to instill life into funerary statues or mummies.

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Nemset Vessel

Agateware

Any pottery that is veined and mottled to resemble agate

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Agateware

Sherd

Any pottery fragment - piece of broken pot or other earthenware item - that has archaeological significance. They are an invaluable part of the archaeological record because they are well-preserved. The analysis of ceramic changes recorded in potsherds has become one of the primary techniques use...

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