Black-glazed Pottery Research Articles

Миниатюрные чернолаковые сосуды для сервировки стола из меотских могильников правобережья Кубани

The paper analyses small black-glazed vessels for food service. There are saltcellars, small bowls and stemmed dish. There are not only whole vessels, but the bottom part, which were used as small cups. Most of vessels were found in the burial grounds Prikubansky and Lebedy III. Chronology of graves with black-glazed pottery based on amphora containers of different Mediterranean centers and in hole limited IV cent. BC.

Stamped Ornament on Attic Black-glazed Ware from Olbia

The article is devoted to the variants of stamped ornament on Classical period Attic black-glazed pottery from Olbiа. Despite the small amount of analyzed material, the important conclusions concerning the spread of this type of pottery in the region in the Classical period can be made based on the analogies from Athens and the north coast of the Black Sea. The main types of stamps on open shape black-glazed pottery, namely, cups, skyphoi, kantharoi, and bowls are analyzed. The earliest stamps with various versions of ornamental eggs appear in the last quarter of the 5th century BC. Palmettes almost always combined with other elements remain most popular during the whole period. More rare stamps are lotus, ivy leaves, and olive branches which are common from the end of the 5th to the beginning of the 4th centuries BC. All the mentioned types of stamps were found among Olbian materials, but it should be noted that we found much more variants of stamps than in classic typologies, that once again proves the uniqueness of Olbian collection and the necessity in its study.

KARATAŞ BURNU YÜZEY ARAŞTIRMASINDA BULUNAN HELLENİSTİK VE ROMA DÖNEMİ KERAMİKLERİ

The present article deals with the Hellenistic and Roman pottery collected during the Karatas-Survey in 2007 at the site of the orthogonal settlement. Since the discovery of ruins in 1811 by F. Beaufort at Cape Karatas (Adana Provin­ce, Eastern Cilicia), scholars have discussed whether they belonged to Mallos or to its port and sanctuary Magarsos. Today it is usually agreed that the settlement encircled with fortifications on Cape Karatas belong to Magarsos. The earliest examples of Hellenistic fine ceramics from Karatas are the black-glazed pottery dating to the end of the 4th and the beginning of the 3rd century BC. The sherds, which can be compared with material from the deposits of Syrio-Palestinian sites (3rd-1st centuries BC), comprises mainly Hellenistic Colour-Coated pottery. Hellenistic and Roman Eastern Sigillata A (ESA) forms are also documented. The latest examples of Roman Period are Eastern Sigillata B (ESB) dating to the 2nd-3rd centuries AD. The coarse pottery assemblage comprises mainly storage, transport and kitchen vessels with light coloured fabric and displays a variety of forms including craters, mortaria, amphorae, and cooking vessels. The earliest examples can be compared with the ceramics of the 3rd century BC from different deposits in Syrio-Palestinian and Cypriot sites. A cooking pot (lopas), is the latest datable sherd among the coarse wares. Typological analogies with the findings from Tarsus and Knossos allow us to classify this type to Middle Ro­man Period.

Imitaciones de cerámica de barniz negro procedentes de las excavaciones del Patio de Banderas del Real Alcázar de Sevilla: estudio tipológico

Technical and morphological analysis of autochthonous grey paste imitations of the italian black-glaze pottery. Specifically we will focus our attention on the pottery discovered during the Patio de Banderas (Royal palace of Seville) archaeological excavations. The aim of this paper is to study the pottery ensembles next to their stratigraphical context. Nevertheless we will include the pieces without a clear stratigraphical context.

Archaeometric study on terra sigillata from Cales (Italy)

Mineralogical and petrographical studies on 23 ancient pottery fragments of terra sigillata from ancient Cales (today Calvi Risorta, Caserta) are here discussed. Stamps on pottery surfaces assigned the fragments to Cales and other Italian workshops acting in Arezzo and Northern Italy area between 1 st century B.C.-1 st century A.D., other stamped fragments have an uncertain provenance. The mineralogical and petrographical features of pastes have been detected using optical microscopy, X-ray diffraction, X-ray fluorescence, and DTA-DTG analyses. The geochemical comparisons among ceramics, production indicators of Calenian pottery (Black Glazed pottery spacers) and local clayey raw materials allowed to distinguish locally produced potsherds from imported ones. Moreover, the whole archaeological and archaeometric data set allowed to draw main technological aspects of a fine ware production much used on rich roman tables.

Anchialos-Sindos Double Trapeza. Pit C: observations on the painted and black-glazed pottery of local fourth-century BC workshops

The article points out certain features of Late Classical pottery in Macedonia, based on the contents of a refuse pit in the ancient Anchialos-Sindos Double Trapeza settlement (in the industrial area of present-day Sindos), which yielded large quantities of local pottery. It describes a number of types of vessels, some of which resemble their Attic prototypes more or less closely, while others are totally independent creations of the local workshop. The precise dating of this pottery was a consequence of the need to determine with greater accuracy the events that led to the abandonment of many settlements around the Thermaikos Gulf and the founding of the city of Thessaloniki by Cassander in the late 4th century BC.

The Collection of Classical Black-Glaze Pottery in the Collection of the State Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan

The Collection of Classical Black-Glaze Pottery in the Collection of the State Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan

Corinthian Black-Glazed Pottery with Incised and Stamped Decoration

Corinthian Black-Glazed Pottery with Incised and Stamped Decoration

The Extramural Sanctuary of Demeter And Persephone at Cyrene, Libya Final Reports III. Edited by D. White. [Part I: Scarabs, Inscribed Gems, and Engraved Finger Rings. By S. Lowenstam; Part II: Attic Black Figure and Black Glazed Pottery. By M. B. Moore; Part III: Hellenistic and Roman Fine Wares. By P. M. Kenrick; Part IV: Conservation of Objects. By T.

The Extramural Sanctuary of Demeter And Persephone at Cyrene, Libya Final Reports III. Edited by D. White. [Part I: Scarabs, Inscribed Gems, and Engraved Finger Rings. By S. Lowenstam; Part II: Attic Black Figure and Black Glazed Pottery. By M. B. Moore; Part III: Hellenistic and Roman Fine Wares. By P. M. Kenrick; Part IV: Conservation of Objects. By T. Fuller.] xiii + 20 + 52 + 18 + 13 pages + 28 pages Arabic summary, 16 + 14 + 7 figures, 16 + 48 + 8 + 12 plates. University Museum Monograph 66. University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia for The Libyan Department of Antiquities, Tripoli, 1987. - Volume 19

La céramique campanienne de Saint-Blaise (Saint-Mitre-les-Remparts, B.-du-Rh.).

The Campanian pottery from Saint-Blaise (Saint-Mitre-les-Remparts, B.-du-Rh.). During the excavations conducted by H. Rolland from 1955 to 1970, the late Iron Age levels of Saint-Blaise were explored over about 5000 square meters. A bundant italic black glaze pottery was unearthed. The detailed study of the Campanian pottery series, widely diffused in the Midi during the second century B. C, deals with more than 6000 fragments and 1600 individual vases. The critical and comparative inventory of forms and decorations, analysed in their relative proportions, define a precise aspect of imported wares at a coastal site of the rhodanian delta. Because of the absence of stratigraphie references, it is not possible to give an accurate appraisal of the commercial development and typological evolution of this pottery. However, crossexamination of chronological data suggests a brutal destruction of the site before the end of the second century B. C. This definitively confirms what was suspected from the study of other archaeological materials.

Coins and amphoras—Chios, Samos and Thasos in the fifth century B.C.

The American excavators in the south-west area of the Forum at Corinth have revealed an intriguing architectural complex, which they have called the ‘Punic Amphora Building’. Evidently it housed a thriving import business with a speciality in fish and wine, whose trade extended in one direction to Sicily and perhaps Spain and in the other to Chalkidike and Chios. Masses of fragments of Punic and Chian amphoras were found crushed and pounded in the make-up of successive floor-levels in the courtyard, together with numerous pieces from Mende and elsewhere. Many others emerged from the single floors of most of the rooms or were discovered in the littered debris from the final phase of occupation. The life of this business house was somewhat short, but a domestic building on the same site had earlier been partly devoted to the same trade. All this activity ceased with dramatic suddenness; the emporium went out of use and in the late fifth century it was overlaid in one area by a new road. The end seems to be securely dated c. 430 B.C. by Attic black-glaze pottery in the final floor-level or in the debris covering the last floor. Professor Williams plausibly links the collapse of business with the interruption of Corinth's trade caused by the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War: one of Athens' first war measures was to blockade both the Saronic and the Corinthian Gulfs. This new material evidence for Corinthian commerce is most welcome in itself and, as I hope to show in this paper, it may help clarify other problems.

Mössbauer spectroscopy of Greek ‘Etruscan’ pottery

WE present here an analysis of the iron compounds in both the core and surface ‘gloss’ of a sherd of Greek ‘Etruscan’ black glazed pottery, using both scattering and absorption techniques. The Mossbauer effect1 is used to measure the magnetic hyperfine splitting, determined by the overall magnetic properties and the isomer shift and quadrupole splitting, which are related to the oxidation state and site symmetry at the Mossbauer site. Mossbauer measurements are particularly effective for structures containing iron, even in finely divided form, and are non destructive.

Old Smyrna: Fourth-Century Black Glaze

The classical Black Glaze pottery is a reddish ware distinguished by a uniform, lustrous black ‘glaze’—to use the term improperly—and fairly closely standardized in its forms. The main centre of production of this ware was Athens; and at the commencement of the excavations at Smyrna we supposed that the pottery of this class in the classical levels was Attic import. But it soon became clear that the bulk of the black glaze ware in the fourth-century levels (as opposed to that of the fifth century) was not Attic. It is very good imitation of Attic, so good as to be at times indistinguishable; but when the material is set side by side with Attic ware of the same period, differences become manifest. The biscuit is less consistent in colour, too frequently pink near the edges of the break and grey in the core; and not infrequently the glaze is a warm sigillata red. The ring feet tend perhaps to be heavier and the bases less delicately painted than the Attic. The favourite type of bowl with a reserved stripe on the outer wall (Figs. 4–5) cannot be matched in Athens, while conversely the ordinary fourth-century kotyle with cyma profile is not present at Smyrna; and the salt-cellars at Smyrna seem to diverge from their Attic counterparts.

Black Glaze Pottery from Rhitsona in Boeotia - Black Glaze Pottery from Rhitsona in Boeotia. By Percy N. Ure, M.A. (University College, Reading; Studies in History and Archaeology.) I vol. 8vo. Pp. 64, with 19 plates, photographic. Oxford University Press: Humphrey Milford, 1913. 7s. 6d. net.

Black Glaze Pottery from Rhitsona in Boeotia - Black Glaze Pottery from Rhitsona in Boeotia. By Percy N. Ure, M.A. (University College, Reading; Studies in History and Archaeology.) I vol. 8vo. Pp. 64, with 19 plates, photographic. Oxford University Press: Humphrey Milford, 1913. 7s. 6d. net.

Black Glaze Pottery from Rhitsona in Boeotia. By P. N. Ure. University College, Reading, Studies in History and Archaeology. Pp. 64 + 19 Plates. OxfordUniversity Press, 1913. 7s. 6d.

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