Unpublished Black-topped Pottery from the Eton-Myers Collection (ECM 844, ECM 1210, ECM 1211, ECM 1225, and ECM 1226)

IF 0.6 4区历史学 Q3 ANTHROPOLOGY

Praehistorische Zeitschrift Pub Date : 2022-12-17 DOI:10.1515/pz-2022-2029

E. Khalifa

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Abstract Representing the choices of Egyptologists like Brugsch and Newberry in addition to Major Myers, the Eton-Myers collection is stunningly sophisticated for the time of its assembling. It includes 14 pots and sherds of black-topped ware, a hallmark of the early Predynastic Period in Egypt. Despite their attractive shapes and decorative effects, the pots of this type belonging to the collection remain unstudied. Like most black-topped pots in museum collections today, they lack provenience or any other information about their precise dating. Therefore, this paper studied five black-topped vessels from the Eton-Myers collection by analyzing their attributes. The paper identified their forms and dating based on Petrie and later revisions by Kaiser and Hendrickx. The vessels that have the numbers ECM 844, 1226, 1211, 1210, and 1225 were dated to Naqada Ib, NIb, NIc-IIa, NIIb-c, NIIb-d1 respectively. Since the main aim of attribute analysis is to reconstruct the cultural context in which pottery was made, this study described the conditions of the periods the pots were dated to. Additionally, this study was able to show the conditions of the periods that were reflected in the features of the black-topped pots part of the Eton-Myers collection. For instance, a general tendency towards replacing open forms with restricted shapes could be explained by the rise of trade. Hence, pottery attributes can be used to date and reconstruct the general context of unprovenienced black-topped pottery from the Eton-Myers collection. A pot’s function, on the other hand, may be confirmed by its form and residue-analysis. This paper calls for the application of the latter archaeometrical approach, which represents the most recent phase of the development of pottery studies, to further enhance our understanding of the contents traded in black-topped pottery between Egypt and its neighbors towards the end of its prehistory.

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伊顿-迈尔斯收藏的未出版的黑顶陶器(ECM 844, ECM 1210, ECM 1211, ECM 1225和ECM 1226)

除了迈尔斯少校之外，伊顿-迈尔斯博物馆的藏品还代表了布鲁奇和纽贝里等埃及古物学家的选择，就其收藏的时间而言，它们的复杂性令人惊叹。它包括14个罐子和黑色顶部的陶器碎片，这是埃及早期前王朝时期的标志。尽管它们具有吸引人的形状和装饰效果，但属于该系列的这种类型的锅仍未被研究。就像今天博物馆收藏的大多数黑顶罐一样，它们缺乏出处，也没有任何其他关于它们确切年代的信息。因此，本文对伊顿-迈尔斯收藏的5个黑顶容器进行了属性分析。论文根据Petrie和后来Kaiser和Hendrickx的修订确定了它们的形式和年代。编号为ECM 844、1226、1211、1210和1225的船只分别属于Naqada Ib、NIb、NIc-IIa、NIIb-c和NIIb-d1。由于属性分析的主要目的是重建陶器制造的文化背景，因此本研究描述了陶器所处时期的情况。此外，这项研究能够显示在伊顿-迈尔斯收藏的黑顶罐部分的特征中反映的时期的条件。例如，用限制形状取代开放形式的普遍趋势可以用贸易的兴起来解释。因此，陶器属性可以用来确定日期并重建伊顿-迈尔斯收藏的未注明出处的黑顶陶器的一般背景。另一方面，一个锅的功能可以通过它的形状和残留物分析来确定。本文呼吁应用后一种考古方法，它代表了陶器研究发展的最新阶段，以进一步提高我们对史前末期埃及与其邻国之间黑顶陶器交易内容的理解。

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