essay
Imported pottery with potmarks from Abydos
aspects of early egypt • London • Published In 1996 • Pages: 98-107 , plates
By: Porat, Naomi, Adams, Barbara.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Adams and Porat examine imported pottery and their potmarks from the cemetery at Abydos. The imported pottery was from Israel and Lebanon. A small group '…was sampled for petrographic analysis in the hope that it could: a) confirm that all the pieces were foreign, and b) identify the source of the clay from which the pots were manufactured …' (page 100). Adams and Porat were able to group the potmarks and '…it can be suggested that there is a correleation between source/content and potmark prior to or on import into Egypt, which was constant no matter what the ultimate funerary destination of the jar was to be.' (page 107).
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Early Dynastic Egypt
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2005
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Northern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry ; 2004
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not specified
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- Dynasty 1
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Abydos; Upper Egypt
- NotesAdditional notes
- Naomi Porat and Barbara Adams
- For bibliographical references see document 6: Spencer
- 211/323/439/914
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 97171109
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Egypt--Antiquities/Egypt--History--To 332 B.C.