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Decorated terra sigillata bowl from Gaul (Metz in France) Unusually ambitious Samian ware flask from Southern Gaul around 100 AD. Heracles is killing Laomedon. Pottery was produced in enormous quantities in ancient Rome, mostly for utilitarian purposes. It is found all over the former Roman Empire and beyond.
Patera from Georgia, likely depicting Fortuna (2nd century AD, [1] Georgian National Museum). In the material culture of classical antiquity, a patera (Latin pronunciation:) or phiale (Ancient Greek: φιάλη [pʰi.á.lɛː]) [2] is a shallow ceramic or metal libation bowl.
A mortarium (pl. "mortaria") was one of a class of Ancient Roman pottery kitchen vessels. They are bowls with thick sides that were likely used for crushing and grinding foodstuffs. They sometimes had grit embedded in the inner surface and a spout. Less commonly, some mortaria also had handles. They were used for pounding or mixing foods. [1]
A number of Roman artifacts have previously been found off Croatia, including a 2,200-year-old shipwreck — still carrying its pottery cargo, according to previous reporting from McClatchy News.
The ancient Roman figurine depicting the head of Mercury found at Smallhythe. “To come across a head of a figurine of Mercury, in pipeclay, is incredibly rare,” Cohen said.
Roman red gloss terra sigillata bowl with relief decoration Terra sigillata beaker with barbotine decoration. Terra sigillata is a term with at least three distinct meanings: as a description of medieval medicinal earth; in archaeology, as a general term for some of the fine red ancient Roman pottery with glossy surface slips made in specific areas of the Roman Empire; and more recently, as a ...
Hildesheim Treasure The Minerva Bowl. The Hildesheim Treasure, unearthed on October 17, 1868 in Hildesheim, Germany, is the largest collection of Roman silver found outside imperial frontiers. [1] Most of it can be dated to the 1st century AD. [1]
Archaeologists mapped 57 Roman-era sites in Spain with advanced tech, revealing a hidden ancient empire and its interconnected trade routes. Work continues on the ground.