Roman Pottery: Did you mean...?

Roman architecture continued the legacy left by Greek architects and the established architectural orders, especially the Corinthian. The Romans were also innovators and they combined new construction techniques and materials with creative...

This Hohokam pottery bowl is made from clay and painted with red glaze. It dates from c. 1000-1200 CE, and came from what is present-day Arizona in the United States. Hohokam pottery tends to be constructed of buff or light brown clay, and...

Portrait head of a Moche man. Peru, Moche Culture, 1st to 7th century CE. Fired clay. Exhibited at Museum Rietberg, Zurich, Switzerland.

Amorite, about 2400-2000 BC From the Middle Euphrates region, Syria This juglet, with its applied figurine, is pierced at the base and may have been a strainer. Alternatively it could have been used a sprinkler, by clamping a thumb over...

This is a single-loop-handled pot from the Gansu Province of China; it dates back to the Majiayao Period, circa 3400 to 2000 BCE. Cyrus Tang Hall of China exhibit in the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

This partially broken jar dates back to the Hellenistic period, 323-30 BCE. From Mesopotamia, Iraq. (The Sulaimaniya Museum, Iraq).

The Roman Empire, at its height (c. 117), was the most extensive political and social structure in western civilization. Building upon the foundation laid by the Roman Republic, the empire became the largest and most powerful political and...

Pre-Columbian civilizations of the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico include the Hohokam who occupied the US state of Arizona, the Anasazi or Ancestral Pueblo Peoples who resided in the Four Corners Region, and the Mogollon who...

Pottery ink-well inscribed with the owner's name, Iucundus, from Londinium (Roman London). The ink was made up using one part of gum-water to three parts carbon black. (British Museum, London)

Deborah Kass on Athenian vases "I think I'm looking at cartoons of another time that I can't decipher anymore." The Artist Project is a 2015 online series in which we give artists an opportunity to respond to our encyclopedic collection...