Early pottery repairs at Tell Sabi Abyad

• Published in: Relentlessly Plain p. 258
• Main Authors: Olivier Nieuwenhuyse, Renske Dooijes
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Oxbow Books 31.07.2018
• Edition: 1st
• ISBN: 9781789250848; 1789250846

Pottery repairs have long tended to be neglected in archaeological reports perhaps because they are not very common or simply because the practice at first sight seems to be so self-evident. This neglected aspect of research makes it difficult to place individual finds within their proper historical framework or to discuss the meaning of such alterations. As physical attestations of the vessel’s biography (Kopytoff 1986) pottery repairs have recently begun to gain serious attention from both restorers and ceramic specialists (Ambers et al., eds., 2009; Appelbaum 2007; Bentz and Kästner, eds., 2007; Bernbeck 1994, 263– 265; Blanco-González 2014; Campbell 2012;