For my responding challenge, I did Ancient Roman, Greek, and Egyptian Pottery. First, well start with Roman Pottery. Roman's mainly used the jugs, jars, and amphoras for everyday uses. To hold wine, food, water, or other necessities. During the rise of the Roman Empire, the Romans mass produced a shiny red-slipped ceramics. Before the mass production they traded with the others countries for their pottery, mainly Mediterranean and Africans. Some of the pottery that the Romans made were thin-walled and/or Lead-Glazed. | |
Now it's time for the Greek Pottery. Some of the most important pieces of Ancient Greek history. The Greeks started making pottery 1050-900BC. The colors they used were black and brown. The first type of pottery the Greeks made was Oriental Pottery. The designs are mainly, intricate designs, flowers, vines and/or animals. The next type they made(and the most seen) was Black figures. This is were they painted pictures of their gods, heroes, and mythical creatures on them. The Last and biggest of the Greeks pottery was the Panatheniac Amphoras. These things were massive. They could hold 42 quarts of liquids or food. They were used to hold the sacred olive oil to pour over the winners of the Olympics. | |
The Egyptians used pottery for everyday uses. They used it for bricks, tableware, statuettes, toys, and games. They clay they used was a reddish-brown color that they found in the Nile River. They started making pottery in the Naqada || period (about 4 millennium BCE). The techniques used to make pottery was hallowing out a lump of clay, and pinching and smoothing to give it a final form. This way made a thin-walled piece. Any decor that the person wanted was stuck or painted onto the piece. One of the ways they colored a pot, was using wash, or putting a pot next to a smoking furnace to color it black. Wash is a mixture of pigment, mainly red ocher, changed or made colors stand out more. Egyptians used slip to smooth and color pottery. Egyptians also used crushed rocks such as quartzite and a bit of iron to make colors. They also added acid to use for glaze. Glazing also started in 4 millennium BCE. Towards the end of the Egyptian Pharaohs, Egyptians started using lead-based glaze. | |
didn't use wheels, or kilns. It took days to make a pot, plate, but it took longer to make anything
at all. I went to Sicily, and tried my hand at a wheel in sixth grade. It was harder than it looks,
and I had to try many times over. We can learn from all of the art work from the ancient times to
understand how they lived their lives and how different their times were than ours.