#ceramic vessels

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Terracotta Blues’ series wheel thrown by Chiara Zoppei.

Clara Holt Reimagines Ancient Myths and Decorative Traditions in Vivid Ceramic Vessels

Drawing on the long history of Mediterranean ceramics, Italian artist Clara Holt covers the surfaces of vessels, tiles, and tablets with playful, colorful narratives. Inspired by the region’s ancient decorative pottery like the Minoan octopus flask or Greek and Etruscan vase painting, she illustrates references to mythology, nature, customs, and folklore.

All images © Clara Holt

Slip casted by Jacopo Lupi

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3,000-Year-Old Bird-Shaped Vessel Placed Burial Urn Found in Bulgaria’s Baley in Crucial Thracian Bronze Age Necropolis

3,000-Year-Old Bird-Shaped Vessel Placed Burial Urn Found in Bulgaria’s Baley in Crucial Thracian Bronze Age Necropolis

This more than 3,000-year-old encrusted ceramic bird-shaped vessel depicting a duck or another water bird species, has been found by archaeologists inside an urn in the Bronze Age necropolis in Baley in Northwest Buglaria. Photo: National Institute and Museum of Archaeology Archaeologists have discovered 15 new graves from the 2nd millennium BC, the Middle Bronze Age and the Late Bronze Age, near…

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Mexican archaeologists discover cave filled with near perfect Mayan ceramics | CBC News

Mexican archaeologists say they've found a cave at the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza with offerings of more than 150 ceramic vessels in nearly untouched condition.

About Mayans, and so WAY WAY WAY outside the purview, but isn’t this why we all love archaeology? That fantastic once-in-a-lifetime find? What a great story.

[archaeologyinbulgaria]

7,000-Year-Old Ritual Table with ‘Horned Animal’, First Bulgarian Empire Settlement Found near Varna in Rescue Digs

7,000-Year-Old Ritual Table with ‘Horned Animal’, First Bulgarian Empire Settlement Found near Varna in Rescue Digs

The 7,000-year-old zoomorphic ritual table decorated with a “horned animal”, perhaps a ram, found near Bulgaria’s Tsonevo and Dalgopol, as displayed in the 2020 Bulgarian Archaeology Exhibition at the National Institute and Museum of Archaeology in Sofia. Photo: ArchaeologyinBulgaria.com An archaeological site containing structures from both the Neolithic, with a “horned animal” ritual table as…

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6,500-Year-Old Full Set of Vessels, Including Zoomorphic One, Gold Bead from World’s Oldest Found in Prehistoric Settlement Mound near Bulgaria’s Pomorie

6,500-Year-Old Full Set of Vessels, Including Zoomorphic One, Gold Bead from World’s Oldest Found in Prehistoric Settlement Mound near Bulgaria’s Pomorie

Prehistoric vessels, tools, and a gold bead from ca. 6,500 BC discovered in the Hidden Settlement Mound near Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast of Pomorie, which have been included in the 2020 Bulgarian Archaeology Exhibition. A total of 13 vessels are shown here, out of a collective find of 21. The intriguing headless four-legged zoomorphic vessel is visible in the middle. Photo: National Institute and…

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Medieval Fortress Wall, Lady’s Ring with Crystal Discovered in Rescue Digs in Bulgaria’s Asenovgrad

A lady’s ring from the High Middle Ages made of copper and crystal has been discovered in Bulgaria’s Asenovgrad. Photo: TV grab from BNT

A fortress wall from the medieval Byzantine and Bulgarian town of Stanimachos has been discovered in the southern Bulgarian town of Asenovgrad, together with luxury sgraffito ceramics and lady’s ring with a crystal. (more…)

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Archaeologists Find Ancient Thracian Fortress near Bulgaria’s Burgas Bulldozed by Treasure Hunter

The fortress wall of the newly found Ancient Thracian settlement near Bulgaria’s Burgas was 1.5 meters wide. Photo: Burgas Regional Museum of History via Desant

An Ancient Thracian fortress from the Late Hellenistic Period (2th-1st century BC) has been discovered by archaeologists near the town of Izvor, Burgas District, in Southeast Bulgaria, after the site had been damaged by a treasure hunter.

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Mid-sized urban loft-style concrete floor, gray floor, exposed beam and brick wall living room photo with red walls, no fireplace and a concealed tv

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