In the "Old Style" of Roman commerce, Terra Sigillata ("sealed earth") represented the world's first truly globalized consumer product. This distinctive, bright-red, glossy pottery was not a luxury item for the ultra-wealthy, but a standardized, mass-produced tableware used by soldiers in Britain, merchants in North Africa, and citizens in Rome alike. Its production was an industrial marvel that combined artistic flair with a proto-factory syste…
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