Hundreds of rare Roman pots discovered by accident off Italy's coast by British research ship

Daily Mail ^ | April 13th 2010 | Reporter

[SunkenCiv]

One of the Roman pots that were found lying on the sea bed off the coast of Italy by a British research team. Experts believe they held oils

[SunkenCiv]

· join list or digest · view topics · view or post blog · bookmark · post a topic · subscribe ·
	Gods Graves Glyphs	Lots of Roman Empire stuff of late. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
·Dogpile · Archaeologica · LiveScience · Archaeology · Biblical Archaeology Society · · Discover · Nat Geographic · Texas AM Anthro News · Yahoo Anthro & Archaeo · Google · · The Archaeology Channel · Excerpt, or Link only? · cgk's list of ping lists ·

[Red_Devil 232]

Hmmmmm .... so now amphorae are just called pots by the British media?

[afraidfortherepublic]

Nice.

[GeronL]

That is awesome.

None of them were plugged (they used wax for that?) or the plugs didn’t survive I guess?

[afraidfortherepublic]

In situ

[SunkenCiv]

It's amazing that, despite building a huge multi-ethnic empire and far-flung trade (Romans in Brazil During the Second or Third Century?), they never made a shipping pot that would stand on its base. ;')

[freedumb2003]

I was thinking Roman Pot like Josephus used in “History of the World Part I”

[Colonel Blimp]

Why can’t each news cycle have more stories like this?

As an old newspaperman of 25 years experience, I can tell you that a good story doesn’t have to be bad. In fact, I would say readers love anything with a high “gee whiz” factor.

Of course, when your president is a Kenyan usurper and your Congress is dominated by brain-dead 1960s leftovers, “gee whiz” is going to take a back seat to “aw s**t!”

[SunkenCiv]

They are forbidden from using the word “pot” for fear some wag will use the term to describe the Queen’s hat.

[Outlaw Woman]

You are so right

[Outlaw Woman]

Hi. What topics does the GGG thread cover?

[STD]

thats because they layed them on their sides.

[Fiddlstix]

Gods Graves Glyphs

[TChad]

Dear Daily Mail:

This is a pot:

This is pot:

This is an amphora:

[STD]

thats because they layed them on their sides.

[Mercat]

I thought it was because they used sand for ballast and stuck them down in the sand for stability.

[Red_Devil 232]

Or just stuck them in the dirt.

[TChad]

Let me try that again with a different image, which I hope is not blocked.

This is an amphora:

[SunkenCiv]

:’) The bottoms of the amphorae are believed to be pointy for a couple of reasons — one is, they were cheaper to manufacture (many of them only made one-way voyages, and that’s not even the ones that sank with the vessel), and the other reason is durability.