Pottery Sigillata

Pollard, A.M., Hatcher, H. and Symonds, R.P. (1981). Provenance studies of Rhenish pottery by comparison with terra sigillata. Revue d Archeometrie, Actes due XX Symposium International d Archeometrie, Paris 26-29 Mars 1980, Vol II, 177-185. 

The so-called terra sigillata (pottery with small decorations) from Greece and later also from the Roman Empire is an example of ceramics with engobes. Later people also started to use oxides and mixtures of oxides, the glazes. 

The category of pottery most prominently dealt with is one that has been called Eastern Terra Sigillata (ETS). The repertory is vast both in the number of forms that have been included and in the numbers of such vessels that must have been made. 

In short, after work spanning 80 years. Eastern Terra Sigillata has not provided the kind of firm information that makes a pottery repertory useful. 

Terra Sigillata. A type of pottery having a fine-textured red body and a glossy surface, usually with a raised decoration. The Latin name derives from the pastilles... 

Roman Pottery (terra sigillata) Using Hierarchical Fuzzy Clustering. 

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