Sherd

Vesicular Ware

Pottery whose fabric embodies crushed calcite (either shell or mineral grit) as a tempering agent, used especially for kitchen wares such as storage jars, cooking pots, and bowls.

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Vesicular Ware

Pompeian Red Ware

A type of Roman color-coated pottery made in France and exported to various parts of the Roman world in the late 1st century BC and 1st century AD. The name derived from the color, Pompeian red, rather than its source.

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Pompeian Red Ware

Scraping

Thinning the walls of a pottery vessel with a tool, such as a mollusk shell or lithic flake, held almost perpendicular to the surface while the clay is nearly leather-hard.

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Scraping

Painted Grey Ware

A pottery type characteristic of Iron Age sites in northern India, with its center of distribution in the eastern Punjab and central Ganges Valley. It was a fine, wheelmade, thin-walled ware with a gray surface decorated with simple designs of circles and pothooks, made before 500 BC. The designs...

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Painted Grey Ware

Flat Rimmed Ware

A type of late Bronze Age pottery found in northern and northwestern parts of the British Isles having a rather coarse fabric, generally dark color, and distinctive unornamented flat-topped rims.

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Flat Rimmed Ware

Cymbium

A small Greek boat-shaped drinking cup of metal or clay with two handles.

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Cymbium

Sgraffito Ware

Sgraffito ware is glazed vessels prepared first by incising decoration in the surface and then adding paint in the incisions prior to the application of glaze. There is a contrast between the brightly colored decoration and the overall color of the glazed vessel. Byzantine sgraffito wares date to...

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Sgraffito Ware

Depas

The Homeric term which Schliemann used to describe the two-handled cups which he found in the Early Bronze Age contexts at Troy.

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Depas

Matera Ware

A Middle Neolithic ware from many sites Matera of southern Italy and its neighborhood, notably the ditched villages of Murgecchia and Murgia Timone and a cave site, the Grotta dei Pipistrelli. A dark burnished ware with curved bowls and straight-necked jars, it is characterized by rectilinear geo...

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Matera Ware

Nana Mode

An Iron Age village site in the Central African Republic, dated to about the 7th century AD. Excavations have revealed pottery decorated by a carved wooden toothed wheel or disk. It has been suggested that this type of pottery may have been made by speakers of an Ubangian language.

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Nana Mode

Pyxis

In Greek antiquity, a cylindrical canister-like vessel with a flat shoulder and lid, used to hold trinkets. The name is more loosely applied to lidded boxes in Greek archaeology.

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Pyxis

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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Black-And-Red Ware

Bichrome Ware

Pottery having a two-color design or decoration.

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Bichrome Ware

Vase Support

A pottery vessel with a hollow cylindrical base which supports a dishlike upper surface; the name for a pottery pedestal or ring made to support round-based pottery which could not stand by itself on a flat surface. The term is used especially in European prehistory to describe highly decorated i...

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Vase Support

Creamware

Earthenware having a cream-colored glaze.

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Creamware

Lake Mangakaware Pa

A Maori lake-edge fortification (pa) in the Waikato District, North Island, New Zealand. The site has produced on the of the most complete Classic Maori settlement plans known, dated 1500-1800 AD, with remains of palisades, a central open space (marae), and many wooden objects.

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Lake Mangakaware Pa

Torksey-Type Ware

Type of late Saxon pottery found in central England and dating to the period AD 850 to 1150. Manufactured using a fast wheel at workshops in the area around Torksey, Lincolnshire.

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Torksey-Type Ware

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 de...

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Buckley Earthenware

Surrey White Ware

Type of medieval pottery produced in Surrey from about 1300 AD onwards. Distinctive in having an off-white or buff-colored fabric, often with a patchy green glaze. From the 15th century, however, thick green and yellow glazes were used. The term TUDOR GREEN ware is usually used to describe the pr...

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Surrey White Ware

Canopic Jar

An ancient Egyptian funerary ritual in which four covered vessels of wood, stone, pottery, or faience were used to hold the organs removed during mummification. The embalmed liver, lungs, stomach, and intestines were placed in separate canopic jars. The jars or urns were then placed beside the mu...

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Canopic Jar

Philistines

One of the Peoples of the Sea who, repulsed from Egypt c 1200 BC, drove the Canaanites from southern Palestine (name derived from their name) and settled there, marking the beginning of the Iron Age in that region. They were a warlike, seafaring people and adopted the culture of the Canaanites, b...

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Philistines

Stamford Ware

An Anglo-Saxon pottery industry centered around Stamford in Lincolnshire, England, that produced fine glazed ceramics in the 9th-13th centuries. The buff wares included characteristic spouted pitchers and jugs which were much in demand in England and were sometimes traded abroad.

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Stamford Ware

Glastonbury Ware

A type of middle Iron Age pottery manufactured at a number of centers in the southwest of England. A wide range of forms are known, principal amongst which are globular bowls, jars, and shouldered bowls. Incised decoration in curvilinear motifs and so-called tram-line pattern is common

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Glastonbury Ware

Savernake Ware

Output from a substantial Roman pottery industry focused in northwest Wiltshire, especially the area now known as Savernake Forest. A number of kilns have been excavated and together suggest a nucleated industry comprising many separate workshops. The pottery itself is typically light grey in col...

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Savernake Ware

York Ware

Style of wheel-thrown late Saxon pottery current in the period AD 850-1150, one of a series of regional industries of the period making cooking pots, jars, pitchers, flagons, bottles, jugs, bowls, and dishes. York ware is distinctive hard wheel-thrown quartz-gritted fabric, light red to brown or ...

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