Urkesh Ceramic Analysis

Middle Assyrian / Foreign Presence

Bowls

Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati – June 2013, September 2016, June 2023

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Brief Overview

The definition of what is a bowl is the same for all units and all time periods in the UGR. See here for further details. There are few contexts in which we have excavated ceramics from the Middle Assyrian period (MA): excavation unit J5 and just under the surface of the small mound below the present village of Mozan. Given that only these contexts were excavated for this period, the shapes in the present Middle Assyrian catalog are probably not representative of the whole MA corpus present in Urkesh.

Few of the excavated bowls were decorated in this period; those that were are painted, incised or have a rope decoration.

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Round Sided Bowls

br.-802
br.-804
br.-806
br.-902
br.-904

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Straight Sided Bowls

bs.-901
bs.-902

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Carinated Bowls

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Carinated bowls with rounded carination

bcrr801
bcrr802
bcrr804
bcrr901
bcrr902
bcrr903

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Carinated bowls with sharp carination

bcrsa801
bcrsa802
bcrsa810
bcrsa811
bcrsa812
bcrsa813

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