Samian ware

Samian ware

n

1. (Social Science / Archaeology) a fine earthenware pottery, reddish-brown or black in colour, found in large quantities on Roman sites

2. (Social Science / Archaeology) Also called Arretine ware the earlier pottery from which this developed, an imitation of a type of Greek pottery, made during the first century bc at Arretium

[named after the island of Samos, source of a reddish-coloured earth resembling terra sigillata, similar to the earth from which the pottery was made]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

Samian ware - earthenware made from the reddish-brown clay found on the Aegean island of Lemnos terra sigillata earthenware - ceramic ware made of porous clay fired at low heat