Beaker with Scale Pattern, 1-100. Creator: Unknown.
Sujet

Beaker with Scale Pattern, 1-100. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Beaker with Scale Pattern, 1-100. The work of Roman potters is very different from that of their Greek predecessors. Greek clay had allowed potters to throw thin-walled ceramics. Slips (paint) made from this clay had permitted painters to draw complicated scenes and figures with infinite care. As the Roman empire grew to include Germany and Britain, local clays found there were better for producing heavier pottery with three-dimensional decoration like the vases shown here. These jars--decorated with a human face (1992.125), animals (1992.126), a feather pattern (1992.183), a wheat pattern (1992.124), and vertical ribs (1992.127,a) were probably filled with foods or liquids and given either as gifts to an elaborate burial or as offerings to a god's shrine.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM19F71_030

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

47,6Mo (2,7Mo) / 35,2cm x 33,9cm / 4153 x 4002 (300dpi)

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