Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
4th-7th century clay pilgrim flask or ampulla. Pilgrims used ampullae like this to carry water or oil from the pilgrimage site for Saint Menas: a late-third-century Egyptian Roman soldier who was martyred for his Christian faith. He is shown between the two camels who returned his body to Egypt for burial
Syrian pilgrim token in clay from the shrine of St Symeon near Aleppo, 6th century Theodelinda was a Bavarian princess who married Authari , King of the Lombards in 588. When he died in 590, she was allowed to choose his cousin Agilulf as her next husband and the next king.
Finer clay, thrown on the wheel, permitted more precisely fashioned forms, which were covered with a dark-firing slip and exuberantly painted with slips in white, reds and browns in fluent floral designs, of rosettes or conjoined coiling and uncoiling spirals. Designs are repetitive or sometimes free-floating, but always symmetrically composed.
Ancient Egyptian pottery includes all objects of fired clay from ancient Egypt. [1] First and foremost, ceramics served as household wares for the storage, preparation, transport, and consumption of food, drink, and raw materials.
Eulogy ampulla representing St. Menas and St. Thecla (terracotta, 6th century, Louvre Museum). An ampulla (/ æ m ˈ p ʊ l ə,-ˈ p ʌ l-/; [1] pl.: ampullae) was, in Ancient Rome, a small round vessel, usually made of glass and with two handles, used for sacred purposes.
Cops need their donuts. A Texas police union jokingly called out a “tattling” driver who captured video of police officers doing donuts in a snow-covered parking lot — but the banter soon ...
Miletus ware used a red clay body covered with a white slip which was painted with simple designs under a transparent alkaline lead glaze. The designs were usually in dark cobalt blue but also sometimes in turquoise, purple and green. Many dishes have a central rosette surrounded by concentric bands of gadroons. [27] [28]
(Jury Trial) Vol. I - January 23, 2015 Pledger v. Janssen, et al. - PLEDGER, et al. -vs- JANSSEN, et al. - Page 81 1 his teachers and therapists, they noticed the 2 difference. . And you're going to see som