Early pottery repairs at Tell Sabi Abyad

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...

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Published inRelentlessly Plain p. 258
Main Authors Olivier Nieuwenhuyse, Renske Dooijes
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxbow Books 31.07.2018
Edition1st
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Summary: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;
ISBN:9781789250848
1789250846