Repertoriul vaselor de tip ‘Head pots’ descoperite în Dacia (secolele II-IV p.Chr.)
The Repertoire of the ‘Head pots type’ Vessel Unearthed in Dacia (2nd-4th Centuries AD)

Summary/Abstract: The vessels in the shape of a human head (referred to in the scientific literature as ‘Head Pots’) differ in manufacturing technique from those with the figure applied on the body of the vessel by the fact that they were made in a bivalve mould. Another element that differentiated them was the fact that they were closer to the Greek tradition, than to the Celtic or Germanic one. The production of human-shaped vessels, in the Roman period, developed with the processing of glass, first in Syria and Alexandria, and then in Cologne, until the end of the first century AD. In the second and third centuries AD, the spread of this type of vessel continued in North African workshops and in Athens. At the beginning of the fourth century there was a decline during the Christian persecutions. The faces of deities, satirs, older people, teenagers and aethiopes were used as models. As for their utility, we cannot be sure, specimens of this kind were discovered in different contexts: graves, settlements, camps, etc.

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