Samian

What was accomplished did, however, reveal the importance of the artifacts -- which include Britain's best collection of third-century A.D. glass vessels, an unrivaled group of glossy, bright-red pottery (known as Samian ware), and thousands of burnt scraps from objects placed on funeral pyres.

Letter From England: Rescuing an Old Dig 2005

Here the inhabitants of Maciston were intrusted with the details of superintendence, as well as with the duty of notifying beforehand the exact time of meeting (a precaution essential amidst the diversities and irregularities of the Greek calendar) and also of proclaiming what was called the Samian truce -- a temporary abstinence from hostilities which bound all Triphylians during the holy period.

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 Rossiter Johnson 1885

Take by way of example the development of the so-called 'Samian' ware.

The Romanization of Roman Britain 1889

Samian ware is nearly as precise in some periods, but with most other artefacts it's lucky to get within the right quarter-century or so.

Wroxeter: the sixth-century rebuilding Carla 2010

A few days later a man catches a fish that he gives as a gift to the Samian king.

A Historian For Our Time 2007

Samian bowl allows archaeologists to date part of a site or how physical anthropologists can tell whether a human skeleton is male or female.

What’s the Hurry, Time Team? 2009

Samian bowl allows archaeologists to date part of a site or how physical anthropologists can tell whether a human skeleton is male or female.

What’s the Hurry, Time Team? 2009

A few days later a man catches a fish that he gives as a gift to the Samian king.

A Historian For Our Time 2007

More than 60 years ago Sir Mortimer Wheeler proved that Roman pottery had made it all the way from Italy to India: the characteristic bright red of Samian ware, bearing the stamp of the Vibieni of Arezzo, showed up in his trenches at the ancient port of Arikamedu, on the southeastern coast near Pondicherry.

Archive 2008-01-01 Jan 2008

Iyrist; (8) Niko, the Samian girl; (9) Philænis, the poetess of

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006