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  2. Pottery - Wikipedia

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    Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other raw materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard and durable form. The place where such wares are made by a potter is also called a pottery (plural potteries).

  3. Pottery of ancient Greece - Wikipedia

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    To understand the relationship between form and function, Greek pottery may be divided into four broad categories, given here with common types: [2] [7] [8] storage and transport vessels, including the amphora, pithos, pelike, hydria, pyxis, mixing vessels, mainly for symposia or male drinking parties, including the krater, and dinos,

  4. Typology of Greek vase shapes - Wikipedia

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    Greek pottery may be divided into four broad categories, given here with common types: [1] storage and transport vessels, including the amphora, pithos, pelike, hydria, stamnos, pyxis, mixing vessels, mainly for symposia or male drinking parties, including the krater, dinos, and kyathos,

  5. Ancient Roman pottery - Wikipedia

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    Although there were many types of fine pottery, for example drinking vessels in very delicate and thin-walled wares, and pottery finished with vitreous lead glazes, the major class is the Roman red-gloss ware of Italy and Gaul make, and widely traded, from the 1st century BC to the late 2nd century AD, and traditionally known as terra sigillata ...

  6. Ancient Egyptian pottery - Wikipedia

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    The vessel to be fired is covered and filled with flammable material. It is placed on a flat piece of ground, surrounded by a low wall, or put in a pit. During the firing process, the potter has relatively little control. The vessel is in direct contact with the flames and the fuel, which heats quickly and then cools down again quickly. [25] [29]

  7. Ceramics of Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    Moche portrait vessel, Musée du quai Branly, ca. 100—700 CE, 16 x 29 x 22 cm Jane Osti (Cherokee Nation), with her award-winning pottery, 2006. Ceramics of Indigenous peoples of the Americas is an art form with at least a 7500-year history in the Americas. [1] Pottery is fired ceramics with clay as a component.

  8. Over 70 finely crafted clay vessels were unearthed from the well, with photos showing the decorated cups, pots and bowls. Experts noted these ceramics were not everyday items. Pottery vessels ...

  9. Pottery for oil - Wikipedia

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    Betic amphora for transporting olive oil, 2nd century CE. Underwater site of Escombreras. National Museum of Underwater Archaeology, Cartagena (Spain). The binomial pottery-oil is documented to have originated in the ancient Assyrian empire towards the end of the 3rd millennium BCE, [3] in the archaeological digs of the Ebla palace, where thousands of containers capable of storing 120,000 kg ...