TECHNOLOGICAL MARKS ON POTTERY VESSELS. STUDY OF EVIDENCE FROM TELL ARBID, TELL RAD SHAQRAH AND TELL JASSA EL-GHARBI (NORTHEASTERN SYRIA)
TECHNOLOGICAL MARKS ON POTTERY VESSELS. STUDY OF EVIDENCE FROM TELL ARBID, TELL RAD SHAQRAH AND TELL JASSA EL-GHARBI (NORTHEASTERN SYRIA)

Summary/Abstract: Pottery vessels occasionally bear marks that can be traced to various stages in the process of the forming of a pot. Considered together with results of laboratory research, these marks can contribute to a reconstruction of the technological processes involved in the shaping of a vessel and its surface treatment, as well as firing conditions. The present investigation is based on a technological study of pottery from sites in northeastern Syria: Tell Arbid in the basin of the Upper Khabur, and Tell Rad Shaqrah and Tell Jassa el-Gharbi in the basin of the Middle Khabur. The Tell Arbid material includes a variety of pottery categories dated mainly to the third millennium BC (Ninevite 5, EDIII, Akkadian and post-Akkadian), as well as to the Khabur Ware, Mitanni and Hellenistic periods. Tell Rad Shaqrah and Tell Jassa el-Gharbi have yielded mostly EDIII ceramics. An analysis of the pottery has identified and interpreted evidence of technological marks related to different stages in the forming of vessels, from shape building to firing.

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