Roman Pottery Found at Worthing

Investigation of roman age pigments found on pottery fragments

This work deals with the study of the physico-chemical characteristics of pigments found on pottery fragments from an excavation in Vicenza (Contrà Pedemuro S. Biagio). The examined pigments were: a blue colour on a terracotta fragment; an olive green on a black pot bottom; yellow traces on a red depurated terracotta; an olive green plate bottom with an amaranth “a fresco” test; a deep red on a...

The Worthing Experiment

Edward and George Phillips ’ Pottery at Longport

Ceramics marked with the Phillips name are frequently found in estate auctions, antiques shops, and historical societies in New England. While transfer printed wares predominate, the firm produced a range of earthenwares, including flow blue, creamware, edged ware, painted pearlware, plain white ironstone, and luster. Printed pieces were often marked with a transfer containing the name of the p...

4 a Deposit of " Domestic " Pottery at Kerma

A recurrent problem in the study of Egyptian ceramics is the distinction between the everyday types of vessels used by the living and the pots chosen as grave goods. Since most of our standard typologies are composed of examples from tomb groups, utilitarian wares are often not represented (Bourriau 1986/87). This distinction is even greater for the cultures of Nubia where we have far fewer cor...

Early pottery at 20,000 years ago in Xianrendong Cave, China.

The invention of pottery introduced fundamental shifts in human subsistence practices and sociosymbolic behaviors. Here, we describe the dating of the early pottery from Xianrendong Cave, Jiangxi Province, China, and the micromorphology of the stratigraphic contexts of the pottery sherds and radiocarbon samples. The radiocarbon ages of the archaeological contexts of the earliest sherds are 20,0...