Gallinazo

A pottery style and culture of the first phase of the Early Intermediate Period, flourishing c 200 BC-200 AD on the north central coast of Peru (Virú Valley). Together with the slightly earlier Salinar, the Gallinazo culture is seen as transitional from Chavin-associated groups, such as Cupisniqu...

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Gallinazo

Fikellura Ware

An Archaic East Greek black-figure pottery style. It has been found in the Fikellura cemetery on Rhodes; the source of the clay was Miletus.

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Fikellura Ware

Gallo-Belgic Ware

Vessels imported from Gaul in the late 1st century BC and early 1st century AD, usually in black or silver-grey fabrics (terra nigra), or white fabric coated with red slip (terra rubra), or a dense white or cream fabric like pipeclay. Close British imitations of these fabrics and forms are known,...

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Gallo-Belgic Ware

Belverde

A Bronze Age site of the Apennine near Cetona in Tuscany, Italy. There are indications that it may have been a ritual site, with rocks carved to form tiers of seats and other shapes. Complete pottery vessels filled with acorns, beans, and carbonized grain were placed into fissures in the rocks, p...

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Belverde

Caccabus

A type of Greek or Roman pot or vessel for cooking any kind of food. It was made of bronze, silver, or earthenware, and had a variety of forms. The most common shape was like an egg with an opening at the top that was closed with a lid and the vessel rested on a trivet (tripus).

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Caccabus

Rough-Cast Ware

Pottery decoration consisting of small particles of dried clay or gritty material dusted over the surface of a vessel, generally under a slip coating.

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Rough-Cast Ware

Jellinge Style

An art style 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 abstract. This type of decoration was mos...

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Jellinge Style

Zeuxippos Ware

Byzantine pottery named after the baths of Zeuxippos in Istanbul (then Constantinople), Turkey; dated to 12th-13th centuries AD.

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Zeuxippos Ware

Peterborough Ware

A poorly made, elaborately decorated pottery of the British Late Neolithic, found in southern England. The ornament consists of pits, bone, and wooden stick impressions and 'maggot' patterns made by impressing a bit of whipped cord into the soft clay. The earliest (Ebbsfleet) substyle developed f...

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Peterborough Ware

Rhenish Ware

Pottery from Gaul and the Rhineland imported into Britain during the late 2nd century AD and later. It has a thin red paste and a black metallic color coat; some of the vessels are decorated with scrolls or sometimes words in fine white paint. The commonest form is an indented rouletted beaker. C...

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Rhenish Ware

Patch Grove Ware

Kind of pottery with a rough grey core and an orange or brown surface, found mainly in northwest Kent and Surrey, usually in the form of wide-mouthed storage jars and with notched decoration on the shoulder. It is in a native British tradition that lasted into the 2nd century AD.

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Patch Grove Ware

Color-Coated Ware

A way of referring to many kinds of pottery in the Greek and Roman periods which were given an extra surface coating, usually slightly glossy and most often red. Research suggests that the coating was made from fine clay particles suspended in water with a peptizing agent added.

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Color-Coated Ware

Patera

In Roman antiquity, a rounded bowl, often of bronze, usually with a long handle and used for pouring libations. The dish was also used in sacrifices.

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Patera

Salt-Glazed Stoneware

In the 14th century AD it was found that the addition of salt to the kiln gases during the firing of stoneware meant that the salt volatilized and the resultant sodium chloride vapor fluxed with the silicas in the body of the vessels to form a soda-glass glaze. As a further refinement, a brown-co...

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Salt-Glazed Stoneware

Plumbate Ware

A fine pottery made on the Pacific coast of Mesoamerica, near the Mexico-Guatemala border, during early Post-Classic and Pre-Columbian times. It was traded over a wide area, from Nayarit in northwest Mexico to Costa Rica in the south, and was present in all but the lowest levels in the Toltec cen...

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Plumbate Ware

Impressing

A type of pottery decoration produced by pressing something into the surface of the clay when still soft. Stamped decoration is a special form of this, in which a stick or bone is previously carved to give the impression its design. Intermediate in form are the impressions of natural objects like...

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Impressing

Skyphos

Greek drinking vessel, usually a deep cup with two horizontal handles mounted near the rim.

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Skyphos

Legionary Ware

Distinctive types of pottery in use by the legions in Britain especially in the mid 1st century AD, when local products were found to be inadequate. These wares were peculiar to each legion and have been identified at Wroxeter, Lincoln, York, and Caerleon, but there has only been one production c...

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Legionary Ware

Jar Burial

Any inhumation burial within a pottery vessel. Urn burial, in contrast, requires a much smaller pot. The use of jar burial occurred in the Mediterranean area, going back to the Early Bronze Age in Anatolia.

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Jar Burial

Kerma Ware

Distinctive thin-walled pottery with a black-and-red finish, produced by the Kerma culture in various shapes.

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Kerma Ware

Mumun

A Korean term meaning 'no decoration' for the plain pottery of the peninsula which succeeded Chulmun pottery from c 1500 BC-300 AD. It was the dominant pottery type from the Bronze Age through the Proto-Three Kingdoms period.

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Mumun

Delftware

The term for tin-glazed earthenware made in Britain from the 16th century, named after the Dutch town of Delft. The main centers for delftware were London, Bristol, Liverpool, and Glasgow, but the factories went out of business with the introduction of creamware.

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Delftware

Fine Orange Pottery

A high-quality orange ware, often decorated with incised, molded, or black-painted patterns; a late Classic (and post-Classic) pottery type of the lowland Maya area of Mesoamerica. Found at sites under the influence of Teotihuacán, it comes from the Tabasco-Campeche region (Usumacinta drainage).

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Fine Orange Pottery

Reduced Ware

A pottery fabric fired in a "reducing" atmosphere or one in which oxygen is denied, so that iron in the fabric tends to form magnetite rather than hematite.

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Reduced Ware

Shell-Gritted Ware

Pottery made from a fabric tempered with crushed marine shell or fossil shell.

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Shell-Gritted Ware