id:			156292
accession number:	1992.127.a
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Pot with Cover, 100s. Rhenish (Cologne), Gallo-Roman, 2nd century. Tan ware with gray and some brown burnished slip; diameter: 15.6 cm (6 1/8 in.); overall: 13.1 cm (5 3/16 in.); lid: 2.2 x 9.8 cm (7/8 x 3 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1992.127.a

title:				Pot with Cover
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creation date:			100s
creation date earliest:		100
creation date latest:		200
current location:		103 Roman
creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	Rhenish (Cologne), Gallo-Roman, 2nd century
technique:	tan ware with gray and some brown burnished slip
department:	Greek and Roman Art
collection:	GR - Roman
type:		Ceramic
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measurements: Diameter: 15.6 cm (6 1/8 in.); Overall: 13.1 cm (5 3/16 in.); Lid: 2.2 x 9.8 cm (7/8 x 3 7/8 in.)
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* CMA 1993:  "Selected Acquisitions," Bull., 80 (Feb. 1993), p. 65, no. 11, repr. p. 41

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The work of Roman potters is very different from that of their Greek predecessors. Greek clay had allowed potters to throw thin-walled ceramics. Slips (paint) made from this clay had permitted painters to draw complicated scenes and figures with infinite care. As the Roman empire grew to include Germany and Britain, local clays found there were better for producing heavier pottery with three-dimensional decoration like the vases shown here. These jars--decorated with a human face (1992.125), animals (1992.126), a feather pattern (1992.183), a wheat pattern (1992.124), and vertical ribs (1992.127,a) were probably filled with foods or liquids and given either as gifts to an elaborate burial or as offerings to a god's shrine.
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