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Legacy
Work on the ceramic corpus developed over a period of many years, starting at a time when programs were not in place to process the data. This took the form of catalogs by shapes that were printed for internal use, but with the idea that they would eventually be published within as printed volumes in the Urkesh-Mozan Series.
With our increased interest in the digital format, publication was delayed in printed format, and it is now superceded by this digital book.
In principle, the goal of the UGR system is to integrate the full excavation record within the system, thereby eliminating the very concept of a legacy deposit to be studied at a later time. If it is different in the case of ceramics is because of the particular nature of the material. Ceramics serves as the basic reference point for the chronological framework within which the finds can be situated as they are being excavated. This requires a constant updating of the database, hence the production of comprehensive reference tools. These are the ones that are reproduced here.
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This section of the Ceramics digital book
We reproduce here the various lists and catalogs partly as a legacy document, but especially because these legacy lists generally contain more examples than the corresponding TCR lists. For example, the legacy list of carinated bowls lists 219 items of carinated bowls, whereas TCR list contains only 70 items.
These were working pages, so there are handwritten notes, which represent different stages of the research. But this is in keeping with the nature of a legacy document. Our ongoing research can draw on these lists and catalogs, also for later editions of the TCR website.
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