Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (9.1997(1998))

TELL RAD SHAQRAH

CHEMICAL AND MINERALOGICAL COMPOSITION AND
SOME TECHNOLOGICAL PARAMETERS OF MEDIUM-
COARSE WARE FROM TELL RAD SHAQRAH
Maigorzata Daszkiewicz, Ewa Bobryk
This paper is the next in a series of reports on the results
of a combined chemical, mineralogical and technological study of
North Mesopotamian pottery of the Early Dynastic period. The
samples derive from excavations on Tell Rad Shaqrah in
northeastern Syria.1
The assemblage of pottery samples selected for laboratory
analyses represents all kinds of fabrics from the site, as well as
examples of the different categories of wares selected by
archaeologists, such as: fine ware, medium-coarse ware, kitchen
ware, storage vessels and Metallic Ware. This paper is devoted to
a presentation of the results of laboratory analyses of ten samples of

1 In 1991-1995, Tell Rad Shaqrah was excavated by a Polish mission headed by
Prof. Piotr Bielinski.
The first article from this series was published in PAM 1995 (1996) by M. Daszkiewicz
and G. Schneider 1996. Other references:
Daszkiewicz M., Schneider G., Raabe J. (1995), Cypriot Sigillata and Cypriot Red Slip
Wares - a comparison of technological and chemical analysis and of thin section studies,
in: B. Fabbri Fourth Euro Ceramics, The Cultural Ceramic Heritage, vol.14,
pp. 151-171.
Daszkiewicz M., Schneider G. (1996), Chemical composition of North Mesopotamian
Early Dynastic period ceramics from Tell Rad Shaqrah, PAM VII, 1995 (1996),
Warsaw 1996, pp. 171-175.
Daszkiewicz M., Raabe J., Jelitto J. (1996), Investigations on a marly clay sample from
Wadi Qubur in Palmyra, in: International Colloquium Palmyra and the Silk Road,
Palmyra, 7-11 April 1992, Damascus 1996, pp. 99-121.

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