Roman North African Terracotta Bowl bactria ensuring their owner’s authority and

ensuring their owner’s authority and marking them with a symbolic or ritualistic significance

From Mehrgarh and neighboring centers

Kosometsuke

where both utility and ritual vessels were produced

The Jin Dynasty

Roman North African Terracotta Bowl bactria ensuring their owner’s authority andThe Roman Empire, c. 200400 AD A handsome wheel thrown redware terracotta bowl, characteristic of Roman North African pottery. The vessel features a deep hemispherical body with gracefully curving convex sides, a thin, neatly defined lip, and an outsplayed ring base with a smoothly rounded edge. Formed from a light cream fabric with mica inclusions, the surface is coated in a now heavily worn, thin brick red slipa hallmark of Roman fineware