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| Best Image | 2011-7-12lc |  L_V22d1506 J1q1211.1 T729 dM incised sherd f302.jpg |
| Reference To Qlot | q1211 |
| Category | 2009-7-20 | !! | ceramic vessels [Input file: T720AGA.J / T720AGA.-J] |
| Definition | 2009-7-20 | aGA | ~sherd [Input file: T720AGA.J / T720AGA.-J] |
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| Best Image | 2011-7-12lc | L_V22d1506 J1q1211.1 T729 dM incised sherd f302.jpg |
| Description | 2009-7-20 | aGA | Thick trapezoidal potsherd with what looks like a shallow potter's mark. The mark resembles an irregular triangle whose lines extend past the intersections on all but the bottom verticies. There is another possible horizontal impression on the bottom right of the potsherd. Its section shows a black-grayish color. There are impressions on the reverse, likely left from rope. The clay has many impurities in it, especially in the reverse. [Input file: T720AGA.J / T720AGA.-J] |
| Field: definition | 2009-7-20 | aGA | cv [Input file: T722AGA.J / T722AGA.-J] |
| Field: height | 2009-7-20 | aGA | 5.4 [Input file: T722AGA.J / T722AGA.-J] |
| Field: length | 2009-7-20 | aGA | 6.1 [Input file: T722AGA.J / T722AGA.-J] |
| Field: width 1 | 2009-7-20 | aGA | 1.5 [Input file: T722AGA.J / T722AGA.-J] |
| Field: ware/material | 2009-7-20 | aGA | cl [Input file: T722AGA.J / T722AGA.-J] |
| Field: shape | 2009-7-20 | aGA | trapizoid [Input file: T722AGA.J / T722AGA.-J] |
| Field: color | 2009-7-20 | aGA | reddish brown [Input file: T722AGA.J / T722AGA.-J] |
| Field: notes | 2009-7-20 | aGA | sherd with potters mark [Input file: T722AGA.J / T722AGA.-J] |
| Stratum to which element belongs | 2006-8-26 | !! | s20J1A [Input file: S-CUMUL.J / S-CUMUL.-J] |
| Phase to which stratum belongs | 2006-8-26 | !! | h9mJ1A [Input file: S-CUMUL.J / S-CUMUL.-J] |
| Height | 2009-7-20 | aGA | 5.7 [Input file: T720AGA.J / T720AGA.-J] |
| Length | 2009-7-20 | aGA | 6.3 [Input file: T720AGA.J / T720AGA.-J] |
| Mid width | 2009-7-20 | aGA | 1.6 [Input file: T720AGA.J / T720AGA.-J] |
| Ware/Material | 2009-7-20 | aGA | ~CL [Input file: T720AGA.J / T720AGA.-J] |
| 2015-4-15 | cJC | ~CH [Input file: ZA415CJC.J / ZA415CJC.-J] | |
| Color definition | 2009-7-20 | aGA | yellowish brown [Input file: T720AGA.J / T720AGA.-J] |
| Color number | 2009-7-20 | aGA | 10YR 5/6 [Input file: T720AGA.J / T720AGA.-J] |
| Condition | 2009-7-20 | aGA | fragment [Input file: T720AGA.J / T720AGA.-J] |
| Notes on typology | 2009-8-18 | gB | While there are other sherds from a variety of different strata with unique incised designs, i.e., designs that are not repeated to form a running pattern on the surface of the vessel, the A16 q1211.1 sherd from J1 has four peculiarities. First, the lines are quite straight, as if they were not obtained by dragging the tip of a stylus-like implement along the surface of the sherd, but rather by depressing the same stylus along its side (this implies that the sign was impressed on the wet clay before the vessel was fired, thus arguing agaist a possible identification as an ostracon). Second, the incision is a single line, whereas many of the other sherds show a double line, as if the implement used were like a straw with two edges. Third, the incision is very shallow, though it is quite sharply defined. Fourth, the design may perhaps be seen as being representational in nature, as a schematic bull's head. We have routinely interpreted these incised designs as either simple decorative elements, or as potter's marks. The J1 sherd, however, because of the peculiarities just noted, raises the question as to whether it may lend itself to a different interpretation. Placed vertically with the acute angle at the bottom, the sign looks like a bucranium. Placed on its side, with the acute angle on the left, the sign looks like the aliph sign of the early north Semitic alphabets. There is also an additional stroke that may represent a second sign in a presumed string of signs. [Input file: U125GB.J / U125GB.-J] |
| 2015-4-15 | cJC | potter's mark [Input file: ZA415CJC.J / ZA415CJC.-J] |
| Photo of constituent | L_V22d1506 T729 dM |
 L_V22d1507 T729 dM |
 L_V22d1508 T729 dM |
| Storage | 2010-9-13 | jN | DeZ Museum [Input file: W111LC2.J / W111LC2.-J] |
| Other publications | 2009-8-18 | gB | There is a curious body sherd from Chuera with a string of four incised signs that appear to render four characters in a Northwest Semitic script. It came from the sherd yard of the Antentempel level, and it is described as being identical in ware to those of that level. See discussion in teh section on TYPOLOGY > TEXTS > OTHER TEXTS > ALPHABETIC (urkesh.org/alphabetic). [Input file: U125GB.J / U125GB.-J] |
| ZcaD1.Technique | 2015-4-15 | cJC | [Input file: ZA415CJC.J / ZA415CJC.-J] |
| ZcaD2.Type | 2015-4-15 | cJC | [Input file: ZA415CJC.J / ZA415CJC.-J] |