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How did the ROMANS and GREEKS make pottery?

i have to make something for a project. and im trying to make something but i don't know how.i can't use a pottery wheel though. how did they make it. i need directions and pictures if you have any.

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1. If you are not allowed to use a pottery wheel, then the obvious answer is that you are going to use coil built - on a platform, perhaps with a rock or bump under it, you lay down a flat bottom of clay by pushing down a ball. Then you roll out balls of clay into rods (snakes if you wish) by rolling them between your hands or on a flat surface. You then begin playing the rods around the edge of the disk and then on top of each other, pushing them down and into each other. The bump under the plate allows turning it around so you don't have to walk around it. You have to stop after you have gotten up several inches to let the clay firm up other wise the added weight will make it sag. The coils are smoothed into each other. The technique of coil along with slab and thrown is covered in any good general pottery book that doesn't focus only on thrown. http://www.google.com/search?q=coil+pottery&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a