A Roman Jag, Ancient Pottery. 63 BC. CARVED WOOD

A Roman Jag, Ancient Pottery. 63 BC. CARVED WOODSize: height= 16, width= 9, diameter=6. 5 cm. Hieght= 6. 2, width= 3. 5, diameter= 2. 5 inch. Pottery was produced in enormous quantities in ancient Rome, mostly for utilitarian purposes. It is found all over the former Roman Empire and beyond. Monte Testaccio is a huge waste mound in Rome made almost entirely of broken amphorae used for transporting and storing liquids and other products in this case probably mostly Spanish olive oil, which was

Hälfte 20

size 276x189 CM

SIZE: 7X6 CM

Weight is 18 grams

The Hellenistic oil lamps are the first to be fully closed and made using a mould

and bowls that were used for cooking or the storage and transport of foods and other goods

The large oval pendant painted on one side with the Vladimir Mother of God and on the other with the Transfiguration

The colour of the pot could be controlled by varying the amount of oxygen in the firing

A LARGE RUSSIAN ICON OF THE HOLY VISAGE

called the antoninianus

and so this “stable” is shown in the Icon

The final form of the Western tradition recounts that Saint Veronica from Jerusalem encountered Jesus along the Via Dolorosa on the way to Calvary