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Samian ware

noun
1.
Earthenware made from the reddish-brown clay found on the Aegean island of Lemnos.  Synonym: terra sigillata.






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... conquered, nor had their land ever been occupied by the legions of Rome, which had stopped at the furthest in Moray; and the sole traces of Rome in Cat are, as stated, two plates of hammered brass found in a Sutherland broch, and some Samian ware. Further, Christian though he had been long before Viking times, the Pict of Cat derived his Christianity at first and chiefly from the Pictish missions, and later from the Columban Church, both without reference to Papal Rome; and his missionaries ...
— Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time - or, The Jarls and The Freskyns • James Gray



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