Pottery:Common pottery
Common pottery includes all pottery used on a daily basis in the kitchen and on tables; so called because of their normal and daily use. During the first decades of the city pottery products of both Roman origin and native tradition coexist; the latter richly decorated with prints, spatulate patterns, etc. During the following two centuries, fully Roman modes and models are imposed, in a wide variety of forms, with very different uses: cooking and storage pots, lids, cups, cantharus and jars, trays, mortars, vessels decorated using red slip and others more exotic techniques. During this period an important ceramic industry of common pottery is established in the city, with most of the production exported to the surrounding areas. After the end of the Third Century, and especially during the Fourth Century AD, this local industry declines as a consequence of the disappearance of most of the pottery workshops. However the production of common potterycontinued in the city through the production of slip pottery and greyware pottery, of very good quality, mainly imitating the products of the late terra sigillata.
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