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Mass Cultural CouncilSTARS Grant
McCarty Middle SchoolParker Middle School
Kimberley [email protected]
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Artifacts – Ceramic Pottery
• Clay deposits
• 10,000 years ago
• Artifact Most frequently found
• Different vessels for different purposes
Ceramics in the Field
Potsherds
• Sherds vs. Shards• Diagnostics: potsherds used for analysis• Typologies: How was it made and what
was it used for? (Shapes Decorations Fabric)
• Chronology: When was it made?• Petrography: Where was it made?
Typologies
• What part of the pot?
• What kind of pot?
• What was it used for?
• How old are the artifacts?
What were these pots used for?
Cooking Pots
Pithoi – Straight, thick sides, flat base, open rim
• Grains and dried goods
• Amphora – Two handles, tapered sides, pointed base
Body Sherd
Ancient Potsherds Sort – Diagnostics NAMES________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GROUP SORT AND RECORD – count each sherd type Handles _____ Rims _____
Collars _____ Bases _____
Body _____ Decorated_____
INDIVIDUAL DRAWING Potsherd Number B__________________________
Type of Potsherd _______________
Measurements: L _____ x H _____ x W____ Shapes: Can you identify the shape of the vessel? ________________________________________________________________________
Sherd Count
• Handles
• Rims
• Collars
• Bases
• Body
• Decorated
Sort shapes and count
PotSherd NumberB 66. IX. 16,113
Dig site year excavated grid #artifact #
Unmarked Pottery = BZ
year excavated
How Old Are the Sherds?
BZ = Eastern Roman Empire 1,700 years old
IV = Greek/Persian 2,400 years old
VII = Israel 2,700 years old
I = Israel (time of King Solomon) 3,000 years old
IX = Egyptian (time of Pharaoh Tutankhamun) 3,350 years old
Amphora The amphora was a two-handled vase used for storage and transport.
Krater "mixing-bowl" used for mixing wine with water.
Pithoi
Large Storage vessel
Jar – flat, pedestal or round bottom with or without handle
Cooking Pot Thick rim with rounded base
Plate –
BowlChalice – drinking vessel
Design Time!
Your Ceramic Plate
• Design an Ancient scene on the worksheet • Include a border • You can use letters, pictures, numbers, designs or any combination • Can others tell what your design is?
Canaanite/Israelite
Letters
Architecture
Menander or Greek Key
Black Figure
HW - COMPLETED DESIGN WORKSHEETS TOMORROW
Stratigraphy
Mesopotamian Ceramics
Egyptian Ceramics
Canaanite Israelite
• Bronze Age Lamp
• Palestine during the Late Bronze Age is contemporary with Egyptian New Kingdom
• http://www.bu.edu/anep/lamps.html
Greek/Cypriot Pottery
Painted Pottery
• Dionysus Holding a Kantharos. – Red-figure– The Berlin Painter
• c. 490-480 B.C.