The Origins And Use Of The Potters Wheel In Ancient Egypt
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Author | : Sarah Doherty |
Publisher | : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 2015-02-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1784910619 |
Despite many years work on the technology of pottery production it is perhaps surprising that the origins of the potter's wheel in Egypt have yet to be determined. This volume seeks to rectify this situation by determining when the potter's wheel was introduced into Egypt.
Author | : Sarah Doherty |
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Release | : 2013 |
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Despite many years work on the technology of pottery production by archaeologists it is perhaps surprising that the origins of the potter's wheel in Egypt have yet to be determined. This present project seeks to rectify this situation by determining when the potter's wheel was introduced to Egypt, establishing in what contexts wheel-made pottery occurs, and considering the reasons why the Egyptians introduced the wheel when a well-established handmade pottery industry already existed. The potter's wheel is often thought to have originated in Mesopotamia in the 4th millennium B.C. and subsequently its use spread to the Levant and Egypt, but little analysis has been undertaken as to why this occurred, or how its use came to be so widespread. Through a thorough analysis of all available sources, such as manufacturing marks on pottery, provenance potter's wheels and depictions of potters in art and texts this thesis will assess the evidence for the introduction of the potter's wheel. Through examining manufacturing marks on pottery and determining characteristics of wheel made marks by comparing them to experimental examples it is hoped a more complete view of when and in what manner the Egyptians were manufacturing their pottery vessels on the wheel will be gained. The potter's wheel is arguably the most significant machine introduced into Egypt during the Old Kingdom, second only perhaps to the lever. This thesis concludes that the potter's wheel was introduced to Egypt from the Levant during the reign of Pharoh Sneferu in the 4th dynasty (c.2600 B.C.). Sneferu or a member of his court sponsored their potters to use the elite-stone basalt potter's wheel in and entirely new way, to throw pottery. The impact of this innovation would not just have affected the Egyptian potters themselves learning a new skill but also signalled the beginnings of a more complex and technologically advanced society.
Author | : Sarah Doherty |
Publisher | : Archaeopress Archaeology |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Potters' wheels |
ISBN | : 9781784910600 |
Despite many years work on the technology of pottery production it is perhaps surprising that the origins of the potter's wheel in Egypt have yet to be determined. This volume seeks to rectify this situation by determining when the potter's wheel was introduced into Egypt.
Author | : S. 1813-1885 Birch |
Publisher | : Arkose Press |
Total Pages | : 694 |
Release | : 2015-10-17 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781344765114 |
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Author | : Samuel Birch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 1858 |
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Author | : Samuel Birch |
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Total Pages | : 716 |
Release | : 1873 |
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Author | : Herbert Spencer Harrison |
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Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Pottery |
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Author | : Samuel Birch |
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Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 1858 |
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Author | : Leslie Anne Warden |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2013-10-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004259856 |
In Pottery and Economy in Old Kingdom Egypt, Leslie Anne Warden investigates the economic importance of utilitarian ceramics, particularly beer jars and bread moulds, in third millennium BC Egypt. The Egyptian economy at this period is frequently presented as state-centric or state-defined. This study forwards new methodology for a bottom-up approach to Egyptian economy, analyzing economic relationships through careful analysis of variation within the utilitarian wares which formed the basis of much economic exchange in the period. Beer jars and bread moulds, together with their archaeological, textual, and iconographic contexts, thus yield a framework for the economy which is fluid, agent-based, and defined by small scale, face-to-face relationships rather than the state.
Author | : Colin A. Hope |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Shire Publications |
Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
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