A free lunchtime gallery talk at the British Museum on Saturday 13 February at 13.15. Just drop in.
A free family activity at the British Museum's Samsung Digital Discovery Centre on Saturday 9 May.
A free family event at the British Museum on Saturday 6 March, 11.00-15.00. Booking required, limited places.
A lunchtime talk on Friday 26 June at the British Museum. Admission free, just drop in.
The urn has a poorly made rim and sloping shoulders decorated with three shallow grooves drawn with a blunt ended bone or stick. The body is ornamented with shallow vertical bosses which are flanked by impressions made with a flat circular punch. Two, sometimes three, vertical grooves fill the spaces between the zones of punch marks. This urn is undistinguished apart from the fact that it has a single deliberately drilled hole on the shoulder. This may have had some symbolic purpose that is now
This plate is decorated with an arabesque design in blue and white glaze. It was made using a potting wheel, which in North Africa is used exclusively in towns and cities, and range in type from electric, foot-propelled to hand-turned varieties. Moroccan potters distinguish between two types of decoration. Designs placed onto pots before glazing are called baldi , and are used on pots for domestic use as well as marriage drums and Ramadan vessels. In Fez, baldi pottery is believed to be the orig
This unglazed water vessel ( sharbat al-'arus ) traditionally forms part of the trousseau that a bride takes to her new home. People living in Yemen distinguish different types of water according to use, for example, for washing, ritual ablutions or drinking and so on. Drinking water is also defined according to quality; good water is described as 'light' on the stomach and is said to affect not only one's health but also speech. Until recently, all water in the home was fetched daily by women f
Details of a British Museum project entitled Pottery bowls from Miletos
An article about pottery manufacture and distribution in Roman Britain
An article about pottery use in Roman Britain