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2. Pottery - Wikipedia

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   However, the lowest quality common red clay was adequate for low-temperature fires used for the earliest pots. Clay tempered with sand, grit, crushed shell or crushed pottery were often used to make bonfire-fired ceramics because they provided an open-body texture that allowed water and volatile components of the clay to escape freely.

3. Clay pot cooking - Wikipedia

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   Clay roasting pots called Römertopf ('Roman pot') are a recreation of the wet-clay cooking vessels used by the Etruscans, and appropriated by the Romans, by at least the first century BC. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They are used for a variety of dishes in the oven and are always immersed in water and soaked for at least fifteen minutes before being placed in ...

4. Ancient Egyptian pottery - Wikipedia

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   The most important sub-types of marl clay are: [4] Qena clay: secondary deposits like that at Wadi Qena. This clay comes from sediments which were washed down the wadi and mixed with local slate and limestone. Marl clay from slate and limestone which is found along the Nile between Esna and Cairo.

5. List of cooking vessels - Wikipedia

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   Stock pot – a generic name for one of the most common types of cooking pot used worldwide; A ttukbaegi filled with sundubu-jjigae. Sufuria – a flat based, deep sided, lipped and handleless cooking pot or container. [35] [36] It is ubiquitous in Kenya, Tanzania and other Great Lakes nations. [37]

6. Clay - Wikipedia

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   Cooking pots, art objects, dishware, smoking pipes, and even musical instruments such as the ocarina can all be shaped from clay before being fired. Ancient peoples in Mesopotamia adopted clay tablets as the first known writing medium. [8] Clay was chosen due to the local material being easy to work with and widely available. [26]

7. Glossary of pottery terms - Wikipedia

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   Synonym for kaolin: a raw material for many types of clay body, and is the main clay for porcelain. [6] China stone A pottery stone that was formerly mined in Cornwall in the UK. Traditionally was used at around 25% in bone china bodies. Also known as Cornish stone. [7] Clay A group of hydrous aluminium phyllosilicate minerals.