Ceramics in the Field Artifacts

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Ceramics in the Field

Artifacts – Ceramic Pottery • Clay deposits • 10, 000 years ago • Artifact Most frequently found • Different vessels for different purposes

Potsherds • Sherds vs. Shards • Diagnostics: sherds used for analysis • Typologies: How was it made and what was it used for? (Shapes Decorations Fabric) • Chronology: When was it made? • Petrography: Where did the clay come from?

Profiles Archaeological illustration Front view Black line for the side wall Bisecting line Shows Inside and outside

What were these pots used for?

• Grains and dried goods

Then there was Geometric Style

The spark of creativity • http: //www. youtube. com/watch? feature=pl ayer_detailpage&v=e. STd. Fr. GY 1 UU

Achilles and Ajax Black Figure Ware Amphora 540 BCE

Red Figure Painted Pottery • Dionysus Holding a Kantharos. – Red-figure – The Berlin Painter • c. 490 -480 B. C.

Black Figure

Sherd Count • • • Handles Rims Collars Bases Body Decorated Sort potsherd types Record count on the worksheet

Body Sherd

Potsherd Worksheet • • Handles ____ Rims _____ Collars _____ Bases Body _____ Decorated _____ DRAWING Draw a specific potsherd to scale (tracing is allowed) B # _____ (WAIT UNTIL I TELL YOU TO DO THIS) • • • Shapes: Can you identify what shape of vessel? __________________________________

Amphora The amphora was a two-handled vase used for storage and transport. Krater The word krater means "mixing-bowl, " and the vase was used for mixing wine with water. Kylix This drinking-cup is sometimes called the "symposium-vase, " since it appears often in vase-representations of symposia Kantharos This type of drinking-cup is often seen held by Dionysus on vases. Pithoi Large Storage vessel

Pot. Sherd Number B 66. IX. 16, 113 Unmarked Pottery = BZ Dig site year excavated artifact # grid #

How Old Are the Sherds? I = Israel (time of King Solomon) 3, 000 years old IX = Egyptian (time of Pharaoh Tutankhamun) 3, 350 years old IV = Greek/Persian 2, 400 years old VII = Israel 2, 700 years old BZ = Eastern Roman Empire 1, 700 years old