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La Graufesenque is an archaological site 2km from Millau, Aveyron, France at the junction of the Tarn and Dourbie rivers. As Condatomagus (market of the confluent) it was famous in the Gallo-Roman period for the production of high quality dark red terra sigillata pottery, which was made in vast quantities and exported over much of the western part of the Roman Empire. Millau a town and commune of southern France. ...
Aveyron is a département in southern France named after the Aveyron River. ...
The Tarn River (from the Latin tarnis meaning rapid or walled in) is a 375 kilometre (235 miles) long tributary river of the Garonne, and flows through the départements of Lozère (Languedoc-Roussillon région), Aveyron, and then the eponymous Tarn and Tarn-et-Garonne départements, the...
This article covers the culture of Romanized areas of Gaul. ...
Sherds of Samian ware Samian ware is a kind of bright red Roman pottery also known as terra sigillata. ...
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History Production of pottery started at La Graufesenque under the reign of Augustus. Production reached a peak in the third quarter of the first century, and declined as a major exporter thereafter. Reduced activity servicing local needs continued until the third century. Augustus (plural Augusti) is Latin for majestic or venerable. The greek equivalent is sebastos, or a mere grecization (by changing of the ending) augustos. ...
The pottery was made from local clay with a red slip and fired in wood burning kilns which could hold up to 40 thousand items. More than six hundred pottery workshops are known to have been in operation, although a few dozen were prominent. In telecommunications, a slip is a positional displacement in a sequence of transmitted symbols that causes the loss or insertion of one or more symbols. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Charcoal Kilns, California Gold Kiln, Victoria, Australia A kiln is an oven that is used for hardening, burning, or drying anything. ...
References
Bibliography - Bémont, C. and Jacob, J.-P. (1986) La Terre sigillée gallo-romaine. Lieux de production du Haut Empire: implantations, produits, relations. Documents d'archéologie française, 6, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris.
- Bémont, C., Vernhet, A. and Beck, F., (1987) La Graufesenque. Village de potiers gallo-romains. Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication.
- Hermet, F. (1934) La Graufesenque (Condatomago). Librairie Ernest Leroux, Paris.
- Marichal, R., (1988) Les graffites de la Graufesenque. Supplément à Gallia, 47, Éditions du CNRS, Paris.
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