Earthenware made from the reddish-brown clay found on the Aegean island of Lemnos.
Type of Ancient Roman pottery.
1I found the pottery, and picked out fragments of Samian ware; the bank is from three to nine feet deep in them.
2Fragments of Samian ware and carved marble have been found in them, but are probably later than the construction of these habitations.
3It is most natural to suppose that, like the Gaulish Samian ware-whichis imitative in just the same fashion-theyare local products.]
Translations for samian ware