Presented pictures come from the beeing prepared to publish paper "Terra Sigillata-Funde aus Kleinpolen". Subpages contain extensions of the drawing and photographical documantation, made in the course of the research of the Terra sigillata wares in Little Poland. Contemporary this documentation is the selection of sources for reconstructions being prepared by the "ANTIQUITAS" project. Terra sigillata in a great number occures on cemeteries in the contecst of the Przeworsk culture. According to the cremation ritual, obligued in that culture, Terra sigillata wares had been destroyed. The exception is the ware from Lisów, which as the one from the Little Poland territory, was put into the grave in the intact state. The secondary burning on the cremation pile caused cracking of wares into several sherds, destroying of the glaze, deformation of fragments and damages of the decoration. Though the mentioned state of preservation, Terra sigillata is a valuable archaeological source, enabling the precision dating of relic-sets, in which occures. Below a choise of pottery from collections of european museums.

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Mould for the Drag. 37 bowl from Banassac workshop		Terra sigillata two handle bottle		Jug of the Dechelette 61 form coated by led glaze

 

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