Red-gloss Dish

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The red-gloss dish - archaeologically the whole form without a foot. The vessel on a high shaped foot with the spherical body and a sharp transition to a vertical rim. The outer surface of the body covered in the technique of barbotin. D. of the rim - 19.4 sm. The designation 'fine wares', which can be applied to this vessel, is used by archaeologists for pottery intended for serving food and drink at table. Masters of antiquity manufacturing clay pottery as a rule imitated metal vessels, which were much more expensive, and therefore less accessible to ordinary people. Besides such clay pottery had a red-gloss slip with metallic shimmer. Bowls of this type in the 1st century ad were quite widespread both in the West and in the East of the Roman Empire. Place of origin: rural homestead land plot No. 337 on the chora of Chersonesos Tauric. Excavated by Kovalevskaya L.A.