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DOI Artikel:Klimaszewska-Drabot, Edyta: Pottery from the cemetery in el-Zuma (2007 season)
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MtoM - EL-ZUMA
SUDAN
POTTERY FROM THE CEMETERY IN EL-ZUMA
(2007 SEASON)
Edyta Klimaszewska-Drabot
The second season of excavation at the early
Makurian cemetery in El-Zuma covered
five tumuli (for a report, see above, El-Tayeb
in this volume), yielding altogether
77 ceramic vessels which constituted
specifically grave goods. Of these 67 have
been preserved whole or with only minor
damages. Sherds representing 79 other
vessels were recorded from the various
mounds, shafts and burial chamber fill, as
well as from the tunnel breaching the back
of the burial chamber in the largest of the
tumuli (T.5). The ceramic material is dated
overall to the early Makurian and Christian
periods.
The present preliminary report discusses
early Makurian vessels from the separate sets
of grave goods (for views of pottery vessels
in situ in the burial chambers of individual
tombs and for a sample of the pottery
discovered this season, see above, Figs 6
and 9 on 471 and 475)
WHEEL-MADE POTS
The collection of wheel-made vessels consists
of 43 vessels. The major division is into cups
and bowls with a number of subgroups
dependent on vessel shape, wall direction,
size, type of decoration and technology of
production.
CUPS [Fig. 1]
All the cups are characterized by thick, even
massive bases. Walls taper towards the rim,
which is in itself very thin (0.25-0.40 cm).
Both the exterior and the interior surface is
red-slipped and burnished in a horizontal
direction.
1.1. Medium-size cups with flattened,
sometimes slightly deformed base, outdared
sides, thin rim, slightly turned in. Very
uniform in size: rim diameter 8.9-9.7 cm,
height 8.0-8.6 cm.
Seven examples (inv. no. Z25/5, 14, 17, 18,
21, 22, 23), all found in Tumulus 25.
1.2. “Tulip-shaped” cups with rounded
base, thin outdared rim. Two size subgroups
— medium (rim diameter 8.2-12.0 cm,
height 8.1-10.6 cm) and large (rim
diameter 11.2-13.8 cm, height 10.4-12.0
cm). The medium-sized cups are slender in
shape and massive.
Ten examples (inv. no. Z5/4, 5, Z19/3, 6,
Z18/4, 2, Z10/11, 12, 15,20).
1.3. Cups similar to type 1.2, given a rounded
base, sides still outdared but straight in shape.
One medium-size example (inv. no. Z10/5)
(diameter 12.3 cm, height 10.5 cm).
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Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean 19, Reports 2007
SUDAN
POTTERY FROM THE CEMETERY IN EL-ZUMA
(2007 SEASON)
Edyta Klimaszewska-Drabot
The second season of excavation at the early
Makurian cemetery in El-Zuma covered
five tumuli (for a report, see above, El-Tayeb
in this volume), yielding altogether
77 ceramic vessels which constituted
specifically grave goods. Of these 67 have
been preserved whole or with only minor
damages. Sherds representing 79 other
vessels were recorded from the various
mounds, shafts and burial chamber fill, as
well as from the tunnel breaching the back
of the burial chamber in the largest of the
tumuli (T.5). The ceramic material is dated
overall to the early Makurian and Christian
periods.
The present preliminary report discusses
early Makurian vessels from the separate sets
of grave goods (for views of pottery vessels
in situ in the burial chambers of individual
tombs and for a sample of the pottery
discovered this season, see above, Figs 6
and 9 on 471 and 475)
WHEEL-MADE POTS
The collection of wheel-made vessels consists
of 43 vessels. The major division is into cups
and bowls with a number of subgroups
dependent on vessel shape, wall direction,
size, type of decoration and technology of
production.
CUPS [Fig. 1]
All the cups are characterized by thick, even
massive bases. Walls taper towards the rim,
which is in itself very thin (0.25-0.40 cm).
Both the exterior and the interior surface is
red-slipped and burnished in a horizontal
direction.
1.1. Medium-size cups with flattened,
sometimes slightly deformed base, outdared
sides, thin rim, slightly turned in. Very
uniform in size: rim diameter 8.9-9.7 cm,
height 8.0-8.6 cm.
Seven examples (inv. no. Z25/5, 14, 17, 18,
21, 22, 23), all found in Tumulus 25.
1.2. “Tulip-shaped” cups with rounded
base, thin outdared rim. Two size subgroups
— medium (rim diameter 8.2-12.0 cm,
height 8.1-10.6 cm) and large (rim
diameter 11.2-13.8 cm, height 10.4-12.0
cm). The medium-sized cups are slender in
shape and massive.
Ten examples (inv. no. Z5/4, 5, Z19/3, 6,
Z18/4, 2, Z10/11, 12, 15,20).
1.3. Cups similar to type 1.2, given a rounded
base, sides still outdared but straight in shape.
One medium-size example (inv. no. Z10/5)
(diameter 12.3 cm, height 10.5 cm).
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Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean 19, Reports 2007