York Ware

East Greek Pottery

A type of pottery produced during the Archaic Period within the Greek islands an on the western coast of Turkey at Chios, Samos, Ephesus, Miletus, Clazomenae, and Rhodes.

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East Greek Pottery

Stamnos

A 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 and a round mouth. The shape is popular with Athenian Red-Figure vase-painters in the period from about 525...

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Stamnos

Mildenhall Ware

A style of middle Neolithic pottery found over much of central eastern England and East Anglia during the 4th millennium BC. Characterized by round-bottomed bowls with fairly elaborate decoration. Deep S-profiled forms with rolled or thickened rims predominate.

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Mildenhall Ware

Unstan Ware

Style of Neolithic pottery found in the northern part of the British Isles, especially the Hebrides, Western Isles, and Orkney, defined by Stuart Piggott in 1954 on the basis of an assemblage from the chambered tomb of Unstan on Orkney. Including both decorated and undecorated vessels, Unstan war...

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Unstan Ware

Holt Ware

Pottery made at the legionary works depot at Holt, Denbighshire, in the late 1st and early 2nd centuries AD. Of light-red and buff fabric, often imitating Samian forms, and found mostly in Chester and adjacent areas

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Holt Ware

Chancay

In central Peru, a distinctive type of pottery made by the Chancay people between 1000-1500 AD (from Late Intermediate Period). It is black-on-white with parallel or checkered design, sometimes with biomorphic figures or painted in soft colors. The most common forms were tall, two-handled, egg-sh...

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Chancay

Ansa Lunata

A handle or handles on a vessel or vase going in two opposite directions or in two diverging projects. The term describes Terramara pottery of the Apennine culture and vessels of central Europe of the Middle to Late Bronze Age.

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Ansa Lunata

Winchester Ware

Late Saxon (Saxo-Norman) style of earthenware pottery typical of the period AD 850 to 1150 and found widely in southern England and occasionally beyond. The ware is wheel-thrown in a hard sandy fabric usually with a yellowish-red or green-colored glaze. The range of vessel types includes spouted ...

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Winchester Ware

Urnfield

A type of cremation grave or cemetery in which the ashes of individuals were placed in pottery vessels or funerary urns. Sometimes unurned cremations may also be present.

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Urnfield

Pinsdorf Ware

Hard-fired pots made in the villages in the Vorgebirge Hills, west of Cologne and Bonn in Germany. The earliest example is the Wermelskirchen coinhoard pot, dated to c 960 AD. Pingsdorf ware is characteristically decorated with red paint and commonly occurs as pitchers with thumb-impressed ring b...

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Pinsdorf Ware

Psephoperibombetrios

In Greek antiquity, a type of drinking cup with a hollow rim into which pellets were inserted. When it was shaken, it may have attracted attention for more wine or was used to accompany the symposium's music. There are 4th century BC kantharoi examples.

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Psephoperibombetrios

Polypod Bowl

A bowl that stands on two, three, or four small legs - found especially in Middle American archaeology. The form was also popular among the southwestern groups of the Beaker folk and in related central European wares.

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Polypod Bowl

Ozieri Culture

Late Neolithic culture of Sardinia, known from caves and open villages, and dated to the late 4th and 3rd millennia BC. It produced elaborately decorated, high-quality pottery. Classic Ozieri decorated ware has been dated to c 4100-3500 BC at the Grotta di Filiestru (Bonu Ighinu). There are rock-...

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Ozieri Culture

Oculus

The central opening at the top of a dome, such as in the Pantheon at Roman. The term is also used for a small window that is circular or oval in shape, such as an oeil-de-boeuf window. A third meaning is a decorative and religious motif symbolizing an eye, consisting of paired circles or spirals,...

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Oculus

Bombylos

Forum Ware

A distinctive green glazed pottery found in the 19th-century excavations of the Forum in Rome. This ware has since been found on may sites close to Rome, and in settlements of all types in southern Etruria. Typically there are pitchers, often with incised wavy-line decoration around the body of t...

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Forum Ware

Vénat

Late Bronze Age metal hoard in Charente, France, c 700 BC. A large pottery vessel contained 2720 bronzes, including swords, spearheads, socketed axes, and bracelets.

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Vénat

Beacharra Ware

Style of decorated middle Neolithic pottery found in western parts of Scotland and classified by Stuart Piggott into three groups: unornamented bag-shaped bowls (A); decorated carinated bowls with a rim diameter less than the diameter at the carination and incised or channeled ornament (B); and s...

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Beacharra Ware

Badorf Ware

A type of pottery of the 8th-9th centuries in 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, and in...

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Badorf Ware

Aretine Ware

A type of terra sigillata, fine Ancient Roman pottery coated in a red slip, dating from the first centuries AD and originating in Arretium in Tuscany, Italy

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Aretine Ware

Slipware

A type of pottery decorated with slip before firing. The earliest English examples were made at Wrotham in Kent in the early 17th century and some of the most decorative by Thomas Toft in Staffordshire.

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Slipware

Huang-Tao Ware

A type of Chinese stoneware made in the T'ang Dynasty (618-907 AD) in the Honan Province. It is glazed in black or brown and splashed with an opalescent bluish or gray contrasting glaze.

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Huang-Tao Ware

Ebbsfleet Ware

A family of elaborately decorated Neolithic ceramics found in southern and eastern parts of the British Isles. Dating to the period 3000 to 2000 BC, Isobel Smith divided Peterborough wares into three successive styles-Ebbsfleet, Mortlake, and Fengate-on the basis of their occurrence in the ditch ...

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Ebbsfleet Ware

Oinokhoe

Oinokhoe, a wine jug from the classical period of Greek pottery, a graceful vessel with delicately curved handle and trefoil-shaped mouth. It was used to take the wine out of the crater and distribute it into cups (especially at symposiums) and is the vase carried by the goddesses and used for li...

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Oinokhoe

Coyotlatelco

A ceramic horizon of the Early Post-Classic Period beginning in central Mesoamerica after the fall of Teothihuacan. It was a distinctive red-on-buff painted ware and appeared in the early phases of both Tula and Cholula, and is a forerunner of the late Mazpan style.

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Coyotlatelco