10-12-2008, 01:20 PM
I agree Giannis - but I would go one step further and say most ancient technology deserves greater study and recognition. The more analysis of the arts, crafts and technology that is undertaken the better. Given their limited resources these people really put their brains to use.
There is a misfired Attic red-figure amphora, about ca. 450 BC. in the Altes Museum, Berlin, F 2332. Which illustrates partial firing well. See [url]
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image ... firing.jpg [/url]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a page on the topic: www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/vase/hd_vase.htm
The University of Reading has a nice explanation of techniques: www.rdg.ac.uk/Ure/tour/greek/tech.php.
A good article on ceramic kilns can be found here:
www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ucin1023219003
There is a misfired Attic red-figure amphora, about ca. 450 BC. in the Altes Museum, Berlin, F 2332. Which illustrates partial firing well. See [url]
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image ... firing.jpg [/url]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a page on the topic: www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/vase/hd_vase.htm
The University of Reading has a nice explanation of techniques: www.rdg.ac.uk/Ure/tour/greek/tech.php.
A good article on ceramic kilns can be found here:
www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ucin1023219003
Peter Raftos
