I like the molded ring instead of the traditional coil idea. Is there a particular reason, or is it just easier for you? When you are first starting the pot, you are shoving you hand inside, it's that smoothing out the inside as you work, or are you trying to form the shape, or thin out the bottom of the pot, or E. All of the above? Great video thank you!

All could have done in 5 minutes, but eventually well done.

Do they know what type of milk was used? If they looked like your lamp I could see them being used to warm liquids and feed them to infants.

What an amazing work! Thank you very much! I can vividly imagine the ritual in which it could be used: three Roman fellows join together, share a drink from this cup (probably, it involved a skill of fair sharing of a drink), then they break the cup, like some people nowadays crack the wishbone. The one with an owl receives Minerva's blessing.

Im sorry could you link any sources that say milk was used as a sealer? I couldnt find any and its not on your website to my knowledge This is information is really interesting and id like to use it for school work but i cant and sadly im not allowed to just link your video as a source (even though you seem very knowledgeable on this topic☺️)

Hello, I’m trying to research milk glazing in the ancient Mediterranean, and hitting some brick walls. Is there any chance you could let me know what sources you found this evidence in? Thank you!

How can I buy an oil lamp mould?

I dropped $350 on an early Roman lamp and plan on using it in the porch.

Thanks for clearing up the technique for me! These are on my list for things to do later on today!

Again, brilliant. 🦉

Fascinating

Hi Graham, I watched these snippets woth great interest - I've two Roman sites I have been fieldwalking over the last year and have stacks and stacks of pottery from them. I've researched them extensively but came across your video whilst wondering if I could try and recreate some... So thank you for posting! What I am less clear about is how to access the material - I visited kajabi but it keeps trying to sell me the idea of growing my followers and monetising my trainjng material... Not how to search for yours! Do you have a link to the material so I set off in the right direction? Thanks, Andy

As someone who owns a mug and a jug I can only raise my glass (or rather my mug) to those people. Because they made beautiful wares that were not only practical, but also well decorated.

I sign all my artwork with my fingerprint and my name.

Why didn't you just pour slip in the mold?

I love these.

Saved to my tutorials playlist. 🖖🏼❤️👏👏👏👏🪶🪶🪶🪶🪶

Lovely video, thank you! It's such a beautiful little cup, decorated with so many beads and fine cord, that it really is an intriguing mystery why they left the inside all rough. My first thought was using it as a grater as well, but now you mention it, the overall shape does seem very inconvenient for it. Plus, it seems the beads would have made collecting whatever was grated rather annoying. My second thought was that maybe the potter ran out of time before it was time for the firing, but as I understand it, they wouldn't have done big firings of lots of pottery at once, right? They would have just fired this little cup in the hearth/ cooking fire, so it wouldn't have mattered to finish it up later and just fire it a day or two later. And even then, it would have needed to dry out first anyways and could be cleaned during that time. And so the mystery remains! Somehow it makes the grape cup even more endearing.

I love this video, thank you! Wonderful channel I just discovered. It's fascinating to see the kinds of inclusions people were using back then; I've heard of grog and sand of course, but I didn't know people would include animal manures or other fine organic matter! I just learned from a different channel (Andy Ward's Ancient Pottery) about using dried manure for firings, which I suppose wasn't done unless the culture was raising livestock. I find it fascinating! The humble cowpie has such varied uses. But good to know that sawdust will do the trick just as well.

Graham it was a real pleasure to speak with you at the Senhouse Roman museum in Maryport yesterday. Hope your trip to London to build a kiln goes well! Your understanding of potting is only equalled by your enthusiasm and ability to communicate!

These were probably lamps - you could have much more than three on some examples. I wouldn't drink from them! :)

weird never even heard of those

I've been wondering how they were used. Were they ceremonial? Ritual? Part of a drinking game? What contexts have they been found in? That sort of thing. I imagine we don't really have any answers... Archaeology is fascinating and frustrating in pretty much equal measures, I think.

Thanks for explaining the three cups. Hopefully someday, someone will explain the three seashells.

Good archeological sleuthing.

HAHAAAAH!!!! A "PUZLE POT"!!!! How do you drink wine out of three drinking cups????? I think I have got it!!! The hols in each cup are not all in the same configuration. One is high, low or in the centre, so you must guess the correct combination to drink the last drop of wine.

LOL!! I guess you would have to burry them, and then have them roll bout in a field for about 18,000 years to see if your theory is right, but i think it is correct. Great work and I would love one of those Beakers. All the best, Karl. 🍻🍻🍻🍻

A tricky drinking cup - jyst the sort of thing to be expected at an army post.

Come on: boobs, Minerva or not.

I so enjoyed this! You have a new subscriber! 😃👍

I felt the same sort of "ah ha" moment when you pictured the triple cup. One might expect the connected sided (within each ""eye" to be a little flat?

Exellent detective work.

This is such an interesting video. Thank you :)

I bought one of these pots from your online shop. It's a nice little item and your hypothesis seems to make sense. That said, you are right, it's still an owl (at least to me)

That poor table…

Lovely explanation!

That's an interesting concept -- and now it's something I want to try! Then, of course, I've have to build a Temple of Minerva to put it in...

Fantastic 👏🏼🦋🦋🦋

Nice👍

So what if you painted the inside?. Wonderful video!

do those pots stick together in the kiln? Or were glazed pots fired a different way in medieval times?

I'm wondering, why wouldn't you just throw a bunch of nozzles off the hump?

Great tutorial! Would love link.

Informative, thanks

Discovered and loved! As a student of archaeology thank you for posting!

Palestinian kilns used olive stones up until the 1960's. Then car tyre inner tubes proved a free and energy dense fuel. Pine cones? Wood is a premium resource in the Med region.

I have trouble believing that someone who specializes in ancient and medieval pottery could be thought of as "old fashioned!"😄 That was actually comforting to watch.

Would they actually use a turning cutting tool like that in Roman times or perhaps rather some kind of knife?

Thank you so much for sharing this intricate and fascinating process!

Thank you for all of these insightful videos, Potter's History! Do you happen to have any idea how the original pipette might have been constructed?