Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology		The Collections:
	PotWeb:	Ceramics online @ the Ashmolean Museum	•	Early Europe & Near East
			•	Classical to Medieval
			•	Europe from 1500
			•	Oriental & Islamic

The Ceramic Collections (some links currently inactive)

Classical to Medieval:
•	Greek This truly outstanding collection from the Classical period is represented by a wide range of vessels for wine drinking, decorated with scenes of religious, sporting and everyday life

•	Etruscan [inactive] The material from Italy includes Etruscan work as well as a fine and representative collection from the entire period of Greek colonisation

•	Roman [inactive] Roman ceramics include Mediterranean fineware, Arretine and North African Slipware

•	Romano-British [inactive] The collection is especially strong in local pottery from an important Roman industry centred on Oxford itself

•	Anglo-Saxon The collections include a splendid range of Anglo-Saxon burial urns from East Anglia and the Upper Thames Valley of the 5th - 7th centuries AD

•	Byzantine [inactive] The Byzantine section includes a substantial collection of pilgrim flasks, dating from the 4th-7th centuries AD, and ceramics from the cargo of a ship wrecked in the 12th century off the island of Skopelos

•	Medieval Europe The collections include vessels from the most accomplished medieval ceramic industry of England, the Brill/Boarstall potteries in Buckinghamshire, These date from the 13th - 16th century AD

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