The main goal of the project is to acquaint students with the basic methods of archaeological records of Roman pottery. During the course participants will work with authentic Roman shards and will learn: the analytical techniques; how to render a pottery material into a systematic classification; how to make a technical drawing; how to use the graphic software and prepare materials for publication; how to interpret the archaeological data.
4. SAMIA VASA
• samia vasa (Latin) - Pliny the Elder’s Historia
Naturalis (XXXV 12 (46), 160) provides us with
evidence of the wars which were considered
fashionable around the middle of the first
century A.D.
• verb samiare (Latin) – “to polish”
• The wares made in the Gaulish factories are
often referred to by English-speaking
archaeologists as samian ware.
5. TERRA SIGILLATA
• terra sigillata – astringent clay from
Lemnos or Samos, formerly used as a
medicine.
• sigillum - embossed figure, relief.
• terra sigillata – clay bearing little images.
6. Eastern Sigillata A
Arratine
Southern Gaulish
Eastern Sigillata B (early period)
Eastern
Sigillata B
(late period)
Eastern Sigillata C (Çandarli )
African Red Slip
Ware – ARS A
8. First production of Red Gloss ware
Eastern Sigillata A (ESA) – Northern Syria, Antioch, Samaria.
Eastern Sigillata B (ESB) - western Asia Minor (near Tralles)
Eastern Sigillata C (ESC) - Pergamon , Çandarli
Eastern Sigillata A (ESA) – about 150 BC – 100 AD.
Eastern Sigillata B (ESB) – 10 BC – 150 AD
Eastern Sigillata C (ESC) – 150 BC – 100 AD
12. Relief Terra Sigillata Italica
A decorated Arretine vase found at Neuss, Germany
Source: Wikipedia
13. Relief Terra Sigillata Italica is made in moulds
Mould for an Arretine , manufactured in the workshop of P. Cornelius
Source: Wikipedia
14. The Arretine potters regularly stamped their
names on their products in self-advertisement
– a practice previously only
sporadically employed.
15. These are usually quadrangular in form, though other
shapes are found, and are impressed in the midst of the
design on the ornamented vases, or on plain wares on the
bottom of the interior.
24. EARLY ROMAN THIN-WALLED WARES
• Extreme thinness of the walls
• Produced in Italy starting from the late
Republican period.
• Widely exported into the first century AD.
32. Sigillata Africana A – ARS A
80s of the 1st c. AD - first quarter of the 3rd c. AD
Sigillata Africana A/D- ARS A/D
Antonine-Severan age
Sigillata Africana C – ARS C
3rd -5th c. AD
Sigillata Africana D- ARS D
4th-7th c. AD
33. Provincial Roman Pottery
Province of Moesia
MOESIA SUPERIOR
Upper Moesia
(Serbia, Bulgaria)
MOESIA INFFERIOR
Lower Moesia
(Bulgaria)
53. Hans Dragendorff.
Terra sigillata. Ein Beitrag zur Gescl1icl1te der griechiscl1en
und romiscl1en Keramik. Bonn, 1890.
54. Elisabeth Ettlinger.
Conspectus Formarum Terrae Sigillatae Italico Modo Confectae
Materialien zur römisch-germanischen Keramik 10. Frankfurt
am Main, 1990.