Ure Museum Database



Browse
There are 16 objects for which Decoration contains → oval
2006.12.33 Black bands and oval freehand brush strokes onto white paint background
2007.10.2.154 Warrior on horse-back. He is carrying a long spear and an oval shield and wears a cape. The horse is standing on its two back legs.
2007.10.2.319 Oval shaped shield, with chariot and horses on the inner oval, and images of star signs and astrology on the outer oval.
2007.10.2.320 Oval shaped shield, with chariot and horses on the inner oval, and images of star signs and astrology on the outer oval.
2007.9.1.103 Displays hieroglyphs within an oval.
2008.7.157 Interior: grey-black wash. Exterior: greyish-black wash with a brassy-coloured metallic sheen overpainted. 11 smallish oval shapes in a horizontal line engraved across the middle of the fragment.
2009.9.135 A naked winged child lying on the floor. On his left side two oval circles. Cast number: 69
26.12.27 The inside is streaky black, the outside is unpainted except the ledge at the bottom of the body which is streaky black. The flange supports the lid. The lid fits over the body to rest on the flange. The top of the lid is also flanged. From the middle of this flange rises a cut-off, grooved cone. The main surface of the lid is decorated with a streaky glaze with a repetitive pattern: two reserved vertical lines followed by a reserved oval. This seems to have been repeated around the whole body but one half of the glaze/pattern is missing.
26.7.10 Woman in cloak, playing tympanum(beathing rympareum(?)). Head missing. Clay brownish-pink. White slip. Hollow, and oval hole in back.
35.5.37 Interior side plain black. Exterior black with a red leaf or shield on the left hand side, with a red oval shape to the lower right. There is a curling s-shape red figure work, with a large red area to the right of this - possibly part of a human clothing?
37.7.1 On mouth, very broad band between two thin bands. Red oval pattern around neck with three red bands below Siren with outspread wings to left; on back a duck. Rosettes in field. Incision. Black, red in places. Purple for face and most of Siren, middle, part of wings, spots on upper part of wings.
E.47.6.8 Coarse pink fabric. One black oval surrounded by a red pigment.
E.79.2 Such an offering plate was placed in a tomb to provide food for the deceased after death. The plate is oval in shape made with clay and a red slip. Offered here are two loaves of bread, a trussed bull and a leg of beef. The cross channel on the plate allowed the water that was ritually placed in the bowl to drain away down the hole. The water was placed there to moisten the food and provide a kind of magical soup for the deceased.
REDMG:1964.1645.1 Handle, rim and part of body remaining. Interior surface appears to have been black but is now worn back to clay. Handle is oval, rounded and was painted black. Body part appears to have been unevenly painted/fired leaving areas reserved.
TEMP.2003.7.38 Side b, interior, is black, with part of a geometric border in the left half, with a small area of red to the far left. Side a, the exterior is covered in circular and oval shapes, presumably part of a larger design.
TEMP.2007.3.78 Obverse: Head of Antoninus with laurel Reverse: 2 oval shields
The Ure Museum is part of
The University of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Box 217, Reading, RG6 6AH