Eastern sigillata C, also known as Çandarli ware, is a category of Late Hellenistic and Roman ''
terra sigillata
Terra sigillata is a term with at least three distinct meanings: as a description of medieval medicinal earth; in archaeology, as a general term for some of the fine red Ancient Roman pottery with glossy surface slips made in specific areas of t ...
''. The best known production center is at
Çandarlı
Çandarlı is a coastal township with own municipality within the district of Dikili in western Turkey's İzmir Province. It is a well-developed town and an important tourist resort. It is a fishing village, were a lot of daily life revolves aro ...
, ancient
Pitane.
[Loeschke, S. (1912). Sigillata-Töpfereien in Çandarlı, ''Athenische Mitteilungen'' 37 , pp. 344-407.]
See also
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Eastern sigillata A
In archeology, eastern ''sigillata'' A (ESA) is a category of late Hellenistic and early Roman ''terra sigillata''. In 1957, Kathleen Kenyon introduced categories A, Eastern sigillata B, B, Eastern sigillata C, C, to classify eastern ''sigillata'' ...
(ESA)
*
Eastern sigillata B
Eastern sigillata B is a category of Early Roman ''terra sigillata''. Workshops have been identified in Tralles in western Asia Minor.
See also
* Eastern sigillata A (ESA)
* Eastern sigillata C (ESC)
* Eastern sigillata D (ESD)
Ancient Roman ...
(ESB)
*
Eastern sigillata D (ESD)
Bibliography
* Hayes, John. (1972). ''Late Roman Pottery''. London: British School at Rome (hardcover, ).
* Hayes, John. (1985). ''Sigillate Oriental'' in Enciclopedia dell'arte antica classica e orientale. Atlante delle Forme Ceramiche II, Ceramica Fine Romana nel Bacino Mediterraneo (Tardo Ellenismo e Primo Impero), Rome.
* Heath, Sebastian and Billur Tekkök. (2007-). ''Eastern Sigillata C (Çandarli)'' in Greek, Roman and Byzantine Pottery at Ilion (Troia).
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* Loeschke, S. (1912). Sigillata-Töpfereien in Çandarlı, ''Athenische Mitteilungen'' 37, pp. 344–407.
References
Ancient Roman pottery
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