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Wheel-made pottery dates back to roughly 2500 BC. Before this, the coil method of building the walls of the pot was employed. Most Greek vases were wheel-made, though as with the Rhyton mould-made pieces (so-called "plastic" pieces) are also found and decorative elements either hand-formed or by mould were added to thrown pots. More complex ...
In ancient Roman culture, the olla (archaic Latin: aula or aulla; Greek: χύτρα, chytra) [1] [2] [3] is a squat, rounded pot or jar. An olla would be used primarily to cook or store food, hence the word "olla" is still used in some Romance languages for either a cooking pot or a dish in the sense of cuisine.
Ancient repairs were made to damaged pottery using metal pins or staples, which could be made of copper, lead, or bronze. [1] Animal or vegetable-based adhesives may have also been used. Fragments from other vessels were sometimes used to replace damaged or missing sections of an object. [2]
Lebes gamikos, a vessel that was part of an ancient Greek wedding. The lebes (Greek 'λέβης', plural lebetes) is a type of ancient Greek cauldron, normally in bronze. It is a deep bowl with a rounded bottom. It was often supported by a sacrificial tripod. [1] In classical times, a foot was attached and it was typically used as a cooking pot.
Copper frying pans were used in ancient Mesopotamia. [1] Frying pans were also known in ancient Greece, where they were called tagēnon (Ancient Greek: τάγηνον) and teganon (τήγανον) [2] [3] and Rome, where they were called patella or sartago. The word pan derives from the Old English panna. [4]
They appear to be the most common way to cook. [14] These cooking tripods were made from red firing clay with rock fragments to create the coarse touch that these pots had. The usage of animal goods can be identified in the tripod cooking pots, and the usage of plant byproducts can also be identified. [15]
A kantharos (/ ˈ k æ n θ ə ˌ r ɒ s /; Ancient Greek: κάνθαρος) or cantharus (/ ˈ k æ n θ ə r ə s /) is a type of ancient Greek cup used for drinking. Although almost all surviving examples are in Greek pottery, the shape, like many Greek vessel types, probably originates in metalwork. In its iconic "Type A" form, it is ...
The Protogeometric style (or Proto-Geometric) is a style of Ancient Greek pottery led by Athens and produced, in Attica and Central Greece, between roughly 1025 and 900 BCE, [1] [2] [3] during the Greek Dark Ages. [4] It was succeeded by the Early Geometric period. Earlier studies considered the beginning of this style around 1050 BCE. [5] [6]