Dating the Appearance of Imitations of Assyrian Ware in Southern Palestine

Na’aman, Nadav; Thareani-Sussely, Yifat

doi:10.1179/tav.2006.2006.1.61

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“…• delicate eggshell thin walls • fine-grained, highly levigated fabric • wheel thrown and pinched rather than cut from the hump • thrown to its current thinness • dimpled to facilitate handling while wet from the wheel • high fired in an oxidising kiln In 1927, Petrie uncovered a cache of thin-walled pots during excavations in Palestine which reminded him of metal vessels from Assyria. Petrie believed the presence of these ceramics at Tel Jemmeh resulted from the occupation and administration of the city by the Neo-Assyrians during the 8th-7th centuries BCE (Petrie 1928;Ben-Shlomo 2016;Engstrom 2004;Na'aman & Thareani-Sussely 2006).…”

Section: Materials Culture Of the Assyrian Elitementioning

confidence: 99%

Searching for the potters behind the pots: re-examining the Tell Ahmar Neo-Assyrian ceramic assemblage

Jamieson

2024

Buried History

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Ceramic studies have been crucial to the development of archaeology. This paper is concerned with a re-examination of the pottery, and the potters, of Tell Ahmar (ancient Til Barsib), Syria. It focuses on the ceramics from the Australian excavations in the Middle City (Area C), especially the more than 250,000 items from the 7th-century BCE Neo-Assyrian Stratum 2. The Stratum 2 assemblage was readily grouped into seventeen ware types. The various wares reflect different production systems: some hand-made products were manufactured locally, possibly by individual households; other wares, characterised by high rates of uniformity, were probably produced by large-scale, centralised pottery industries; another ware group exhibits considerable investment in the application of different surface treatments, indicating specific uses. The Area C assemblage provides a rare opportunity to examine a large and relatively complete well-dated corpus. Observations and explanations relating to the technology of preparing, forming, decorating, and firing these ceramic vessels casts light on the circumstances of their manufacture and, in turn, on the potters behind the pots of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.

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Section: Materials Culture Of the Assyrian Elitementioning

confidence: 99%