Roman Pottery

Roman Pottery

Materials
1. Slips
  1. Red slip ware from Africa?
2. Clay types
3. Glazes
  1. Blue salt glazes
  2. Other
4. Competing Materials
  1. metal
  2. Glass
Other cultures pottery
1. Greek
  1. Hand painted
    1. Red vs Black
2. Etruscan
  1. Painted Apulian
  2. Bucchero black
Defined Shapes
1. Amphoras
  1. Can tell provenance and age from amphora shapes
    1. Enables us to map trade routes according to amphora finds
2. Coarse Ware
3. Fine ware
Development through time
1. markets and economic significance
  1. Competition
    1. Africa
    2. Gaul
  2. Growing population
  3. Improved transport
  4. Increased wealth
Types of Decoration
1. pot shape
2. Slip colour
3. Scratch
4. Paint
5. Relief images
Examples
1. Monte Testaccio in Rome
2. Sherds in soil
  1. help identify time layers in digs

Resource summary

	Created by Giovanni Milani almost 3 years ago