Medieval Bowl
Iranian Glazed Bowl
Small conical bowl likely from Iran. It is highly decorated with a clear glaze and painted in brown-red and cobalt blue scrolling designs in alternating panels on the interior. The exterior is covered in its totality in cobalt blue. The base is footed. The ware is very fine. The bowl is broken in several places. Parts have been glued back together, or alternatively fixed with scotch tape. Date is probably 11th or 12th century.
Iran
Medieval
Medieval Bowl
Iranian Glazed Bowl
Medium bowl with glazed decoration on interior, in the form of red-brown and green splotches. The green glaze has been applied in streaks running in a centrifugal pattern out to the interior rim edge of the bowl and actually continuing over the outside. The outside of the bowl has also been covered with a clear glaze. The bowl has a flat base, with wheel marks clearly visible. The bowl had been badly broken into many pieces and carefully repaired and restored. The bowl is accompanied by a piece of cardboard, upon which is typed “Rhages Bowl, green and red splotches.” Another cardboard piece also says “Pottery from Rhages. This Persian city was as wealthy as Bagdad in its time. It was utterly destroyed by the Mongols in 1212 A.D. during their invasion of Persia.” It is possible that the bowl is dated to the Medieval period. Rhages is a suburb of the modern city of Teheran.
Iran
Medieval
Roman Red Slip Bowl
Slipped Clay Bowl
Bowl with footed base from North Africa and Roman in date. The interior is coated in red paint up to the flat rim, and the exterior is covered half way down from the rim in a band of red paint. The bottom half is undecorated.
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Relevant Bibliography
Books
Bonifay, M. (2007). LRCW 2: Late Roman coarse wares, cooking wares and amphorae in the Mediterranean : Archaeology and archaeometry. Oxford: Archaeopress.
Burford, A. (1972). Craftsmen in Greek and Roman society. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
Charleston, R. (1955). Roman pottery, London: Faber and Faber.
Very fine and extensive selection of photographs – some colour, some B&W.
Esparraguera, J. (2005). LRCW I: Late Roman coarse wares, cooking wares and amphorae in the Mediterranean : Archaeology and archaeometry. Oxford, England: Archaeopress.
Green, K. (1990). The Archaeology of the Roman Economy. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Greene, K. (1992). Roman pottery. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Full Book is available online:
http://books.google.ca/books?id=NCJ6nruZ4nEC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ViewAPI&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
Hayes, J. (1997). Handbook of Mediterranean Roman pottery. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
Dedicated section on African redslip wares (p. 59-64).
Hayes, J. (1972). Late Roman pottery, London: British School at Rome.
Hayes, J. (1976). Roman pottery in the Royal Ontario Museum: A catalogue. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum.
McGeough, K. (2004). The Romans: new perspectives. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO.
Pottery is included in Chapter 9 (p. 229-232).
Good primer on the basics of classifying roman pottery for students.
Menchelli, S. (2010). LRCW3: Late Roman coarse wares, cooking wares and amphorae in the Mediterranean : Archaeology and archaeometry : Comparison between western and eastern Mediterranean. Oxford: Archaeopress.
Peacock, D. (1982). Pottery in the Roman world: An ethnoarchaeological approach. London: Longman.
Broad overview with archaeological and ethnographic details.
Peacock, D. (1977). Pottery and early commerce: Characterization and trade in Roman and later ceramics. London: Academic Press.
Detailed archaeological and scientific information.
Peña, J. (2007). Roman pottery in the archaeological record. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Extensive bibliography useful for researchers looking for more specific information.
Full Book is available online:
http://lib.myilibrary.com.ezproxy.library.ubc.ca/Open.aspx?id=90971
Reynolds, P. (1995). Trade in the Western Mediterranean, AD 400-700--the ceramic evidence. Oxford, England: Tempus Reparatum.
Detailed archaeological information on the late Roman world. Chapter 2 (p. 5-37) fine wares; Chapter 4 (p. 86-105) coarse wares; Chapter 5 (p. 106-141) trade and economic information.
Extensive appendices with detailed archaeological information.
Rice, P. (2005). Pottery analysis: A sourcebook. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press.
Strong, D., & Brown, D. (1976). Roman crafts. New York: New York Univ. Pr.
Many illustrations, mostly B&W.
Chapter 6 (p. 75-92 for pottery).
Articles
Leitch, V. (2012). Rome Scholarships: Roman African cook-wares in the Mediterranean: Production and distribution. Papers of the British School at Rome, 80, 345-346.
Leitch, V. (2013). Reconstructing history through pottery: The contribution of Roman N African cookwares. Journal of Roman Archaeology, 26, 281-306.
Sherriff, B. (2002). A Mössbauer study of the color of Roman pottery from the Leptiminus archaeological site, Tunisia. Geoarchaeology, 17(8), 863-874.
Sherriff, B., Court, P., Johnston, S., & Stirling, L. (2002). The source of raw materials for Roman pottery from Leptiminus, Tunisia. Geoarchaeology, 17(8), 835-861.
Tomber, Roberta. "Alive and well: the state of Roman pottery studies." Antiquity 80, no. 307 (March 2006): 218-220.
Ceramic
Ceramic Bowl
Roman Red Slip Bowl
Roman North Africa; Ceramics