Urkesh Ceramic Analysis ( 1a)

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Stamped

Laerke Recht – June 2015
February 2017

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Introduction

Stamped decorations are created by impressing the same pattern into the wet clay. This is different from the incised decorations where a tool is used to drag along the wet clay and create lines or other pattern. Stamped types are relatively rare in the Mozan corpus.

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Concentric circles (S1)

See also combinations I1+S1.



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Half circles (S2)

Not currently illustrated.

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Wheat pattern (S3)

See also combinations I3+S3.




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