DOI Artikel:
Myśliwiec, Karol: Tell Atrib 1994
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26424#0046
by a globular body, rounded bottom and surface finish (oblique
parallel grooves left by a sharp instrument); these features betray
a pottery workshop from the Late Dynastic or very early Ptolemaic
period.
Beneath the deposit of bath-related vessels there was another
deposit made up of the bottom part of a number of large pots with
rounded bottoms. Inside the largest of the pots there were
fragments of four terracottas representing a naked female of
standing "concubine" type with arms hanging loosely along the
body. An analysis of these figurines throws light on the production
technique employed in the local workshops. One of the figurines
lacking the bottom part of the legs consists of several fragments
which were modelled and fired separately. Another figurine has a
compact mass of clay forming its bottom unlike the usual empty
forms so characteristic of the majority of Egyptian terracottas. The
proportions and shape of the third figurine recall the Greek /rMroj
statues from a few hundred years back, indicating that the local
potters had the opportunity to draw upon Archaic sources of
inspiration.
The pot with terracottas lay directly upon a thick layer of
plaster which turned out to be the floor of a private bath. The
bottom parts of this installation were excellently preserved. The
floor Tiled a small rectangular room with three different adjoining
pools (Fig.3). The middle pool, which was semi-oval in shape, was
located between two oval pools of different size. The semi-oval
pool is known from baths dated to the times of Ptolemy VI. The
walls of the pools were of mudbrick faced with a thick layer of
plaster. Adjacent to the pools on the north there was a small
furnace. Next to the eastern wall of the room an exit was left
leading to a canal made of pipes of oval section set one into the
other. The canal led straight to a large cylindrical vessel sunk into
the ground a few meters further on, at the eastern end of the
canal. The fall of the floor and pipe canal toward the east
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parallel grooves left by a sharp instrument); these features betray
a pottery workshop from the Late Dynastic or very early Ptolemaic
period.
Beneath the deposit of bath-related vessels there was another
deposit made up of the bottom part of a number of large pots with
rounded bottoms. Inside the largest of the pots there were
fragments of four terracottas representing a naked female of
standing "concubine" type with arms hanging loosely along the
body. An analysis of these figurines throws light on the production
technique employed in the local workshops. One of the figurines
lacking the bottom part of the legs consists of several fragments
which were modelled and fired separately. Another figurine has a
compact mass of clay forming its bottom unlike the usual empty
forms so characteristic of the majority of Egyptian terracottas. The
proportions and shape of the third figurine recall the Greek /rMroj
statues from a few hundred years back, indicating that the local
potters had the opportunity to draw upon Archaic sources of
inspiration.
The pot with terracottas lay directly upon a thick layer of
plaster which turned out to be the floor of a private bath. The
bottom parts of this installation were excellently preserved. The
floor Tiled a small rectangular room with three different adjoining
pools (Fig.3). The middle pool, which was semi-oval in shape, was
located between two oval pools of different size. The semi-oval
pool is known from baths dated to the times of Ptolemy VI. The
walls of the pools were of mudbrick faced with a thick layer of
plaster. Adjacent to the pools on the north there was a small
furnace. Next to the eastern wall of the room an exit was left
leading to a canal made of pipes of oval section set one into the
other. The canal led straight to a large cylindrical vessel sunk into
the ground a few meters further on, at the eastern end of the
canal. The fall of the floor and pipe canal toward the east
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