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Syria
DOI article:Smogorzewska, Anna: Technological marks on pottery vessels: evidence from Tell Arbid, Tell Rad Shaqrah and Tell Jassa el-Gharbi (Northeastern Syria)
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TELL ARBID
SYRIA
scrapers were found in a courtyard in the
residential quarter in sector D where vessels
could have been made. The Tell Arbid
pottery scrapers are fragmentary ring-shaped
objects (no complete ring scrapers have been
recorded). The working edge is usually
thinned, while the opposite end is thickened,
often simply by pinching. Other examples of
pottery ring scrapers have simple edges. Tell
Arbid has also yielded examples of pottery
with characteristic marks left by pottery ring
scrapers. These are crescent-like impressions
of the tool that was used for scraping the
inside surface of big jars from the EDIII
period [Fig. 11]. These impressions match
the pottery ring scrapers in shape and size.
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AldenJ.R.
1988 Ceramic ring scrapers: an Uruk period pottery production tool, Paleorient 14/1, 143-150
Algaze, G.
1986 Kurban Hoyiik and the Late Chalcolithic Period [in:] U. Finkbeiner, W. Rollig (eds),
Gamdat Nasr. Period or Regional Style? Papers given at a symposium held in Tubingen,
November 1983, Wiesbaden, 274-315
Badler, V. R.
2002 A chronology of Uruk artifacts from Godin Tepe in central western Iran and implication
for the local and foreign cultures [in:] J.N. Postgate (ed.), Artefacts of Complexity: Tracking
the Uruk in the Near East, Cambridge: British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 79-109
Braidwood, R.J, Braidwood, L.S.
I960 Excavations in the Plain of Antioch [=OIP 61], Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Delougaz, P.
1952 Pottery from the Diyala region [=OIP 63], Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Ii, H.
1991 “Potter’s tool” in Mesopotamia during the fifth to third millennium B.C., Al-Rafidan 12,
1-56
Jasim, S.A.
1985 The Ubaid Period in Iraq. Recent Excavations in the Hamrin Region [—BAR 267], Oxford
Mackay, E.
1925 Report on the Excavations of the A” Cemetery at Kish, Mesopotamia, Part I. Field Museum
of Natural History [= Anthropology Memoirs 1/1], Chicago
1931 Report on Excavations at Jemdet Nasr, Iraq, Field Museum-Oxford University Joint
Expedition [-Anthropology Memoirs 1/3], Chicago
Matthews, R. (ed.)
2003 Excavations at Tell Brak, vol. 4: Exploring an Upper Mesopotamian Regional Centre,
1994-1996, Cambridge-London: British School of Archaeology in Iraq, McDonald
Institute for Archaeological Research
McCown, D.E., FFaines, R.C. and Fiansen, D.P.
1967 Nippur I: Temple ofEnlil, Scribal Quarter, and Soundings [=OIP7 8], Chicago: University
of Chicago Press
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean 19, Reports 2007
563
SYRIA
scrapers were found in a courtyard in the
residential quarter in sector D where vessels
could have been made. The Tell Arbid
pottery scrapers are fragmentary ring-shaped
objects (no complete ring scrapers have been
recorded). The working edge is usually
thinned, while the opposite end is thickened,
often simply by pinching. Other examples of
pottery ring scrapers have simple edges. Tell
Arbid has also yielded examples of pottery
with characteristic marks left by pottery ring
scrapers. These are crescent-like impressions
of the tool that was used for scraping the
inside surface of big jars from the EDIII
period [Fig. 11]. These impressions match
the pottery ring scrapers in shape and size.
REFERENCES
AldenJ.R.
1988 Ceramic ring scrapers: an Uruk period pottery production tool, Paleorient 14/1, 143-150
Algaze, G.
1986 Kurban Hoyiik and the Late Chalcolithic Period [in:] U. Finkbeiner, W. Rollig (eds),
Gamdat Nasr. Period or Regional Style? Papers given at a symposium held in Tubingen,
November 1983, Wiesbaden, 274-315
Badler, V. R.
2002 A chronology of Uruk artifacts from Godin Tepe in central western Iran and implication
for the local and foreign cultures [in:] J.N. Postgate (ed.), Artefacts of Complexity: Tracking
the Uruk in the Near East, Cambridge: British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 79-109
Braidwood, R.J, Braidwood, L.S.
I960 Excavations in the Plain of Antioch [=OIP 61], Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Delougaz, P.
1952 Pottery from the Diyala region [=OIP 63], Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Ii, H.
1991 “Potter’s tool” in Mesopotamia during the fifth to third millennium B.C., Al-Rafidan 12,
1-56
Jasim, S.A.
1985 The Ubaid Period in Iraq. Recent Excavations in the Hamrin Region [—BAR 267], Oxford
Mackay, E.
1925 Report on the Excavations of the A” Cemetery at Kish, Mesopotamia, Part I. Field Museum
of Natural History [= Anthropology Memoirs 1/1], Chicago
1931 Report on Excavations at Jemdet Nasr, Iraq, Field Museum-Oxford University Joint
Expedition [-Anthropology Memoirs 1/3], Chicago
Matthews, R. (ed.)
2003 Excavations at Tell Brak, vol. 4: Exploring an Upper Mesopotamian Regional Centre,
1994-1996, Cambridge-London: British School of Archaeology in Iraq, McDonald
Institute for Archaeological Research
McCown, D.E., FFaines, R.C. and Fiansen, D.P.
1967 Nippur I: Temple ofEnlil, Scribal Quarter, and Soundings [=OIP7 8], Chicago: University
of Chicago Press
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean 19, Reports 2007
563