Birch, Samuel, 1813-1885 · London : J. Murray · leaf 359
m and Perusia are of the same colour.1 The lamps of Pisani are both red and white clay, from the fundus accianus. The Etruscan are of black clay, the Egyptian of red, brown, or black clay, fully baked. Many of the lamps from the vicinity of Naples are of an ashen or yellow clay. Those from Greece… … gers by a potter called — No. 189.— Mould of a lamp (lower part). the figulus simulator ,2 or stamper. The two portions were joined while the clay was moist, and pared with a tool, and a small hole was pierced for introducing the oil. They were then dried and sent to the kiln, and baked carefully…
Pottery, Ancient · Pottery
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