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Ceramic Summary

Ceramic Summary

As mentioned in the introduction of TTII, 1992, one of the primary goals in reopening this portion of T-26 was to investigate the large quantities of read ware and orange ware ceramics which have surfaced in adjacent areas in previous years.  As expected, excavation of K-L(M)/63-70 this year produced a wide variety of interesting ceramics, especially red ware and orangeware.

Initially, pottery recovery in the medium brown soil stratum was very light.  Cerqamics tended to be worn and coarse and typically did not jion.  However, as excavation continues into the medium orangy brown soil with plaster and carbon inclusions, recovery of pottery, both coarse and fine, dramatically increased.  Initially, concentrations of pottery were found in and around the K-L(M)/66 tile line feature.  As excavation continued into the tile line, pottery recovery decreased somewhat but steadily increased to the west in meters L(M)/64-65. (see drawing on p.211, TTII )

In meter L(M)/65, orangeware was found in remarkably high concentrations.  Because of this density, it was

decided to draw the horizontal plans of the concentration. ( see p.5, TTII ).  Ceramics were most heavily concentrated at a depth of 100-110 cm. Numerous fragments of this orangeware as well as more sporadic orangeware finds from outside L(M)/65 joined to one another as well as pieces excavated in previous years.

Interestingly, in some cases, joins were found between pieces excavated on opposite sides of the tile line features.  THe most dramatic of these joins was a fenestrated finial from L(M)/64 ( TT II, p.155, #12) and a fragment of an oragneware lid ( TT II, p. 215, #6 ) from L(M)/66 erecting a complete profile of the lid.  Possibly, this information will help clarify the tile line features for future excavations.

Recovery of pottery increased even further when excavation of the dark brown soil with carbon inclusions commenced.  However, it is interesting that pottery recovered from this stratum was consistently very fragmentary and only rarely when joins found among them.  Ceramic types also tended to be coarser than those found

in the previous stratum.  In all likelyhood, excavation in T-26 further to the north and east will produce similar ceramics and possibly clarify the difference in the ceramic tpyes and state of preservation between the medium orangy brown soil and the dark brown soil.

No pottery was recovered int he olive brown soil beneath the dark brown soin stratum.

For a summary of types of ceramics found within this area.  See NM IIIa, p.19 pottery summary.

Pottery Profiles:

Coarseware

Rims:

Bases:

Handles:

Impasto/Buccheroid

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Handles:

Orangeware

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Handles:

Grayware :

Rims: no handles, no bases

Bucchero :

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Bases:

Handles:

*note that the large majority of diagnostic sherds excavated this season were made finds and are not included in this summary since they will not be boxed in a representative pottery box.

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Document Type Trench Book Entry
Trench Book Entry Date 1992-07-30
Entry Year 1992
Start Page 108
End Page 123
Title Ceramic Summary
Trench Book TT III:108-109
Trench Book TT III:110-111
Trench Book TT III:112-113
Trench Book TT III:114-115
Trench Book TT III:116-117
Trench Book TT III:118-119
Trench Book TT III:120-121
Trench Book TT III:122-123
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Tony Tuck. (2017) "TT III (1992-07-30):108-123; Ceramic Summary from Europe/Italy/Poggio Civitate/Tesoro/Tesoro 26/1992, ID:139/PC 19920004". In Murlo. Anthony Tuck (Ed). Released: 2017-10-04. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/documents/0c9a2256-be64-49b3-a2f0-927269660bbc> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2sj1s26z

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