(Latin: “clay bearing little images”). A Mediterranean red-gloss ceramic ware with relief decoration, produced beginning in the first century BCE. The finest examples of terra sigillata, known as Arretine ware, were manufactured in the Roman town of Arretium (modern Arezzo, Italy). Web resources here and here.

Terra sigillata krater with relief decoration of the Seasons. Ca. 20 BCE—20 CE. British Museum, London.