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Egyptian and imported pottery from the Red Sea port of Mersa Gawsis, Egypt /

The unique site of Mersa Gawasis was a base for seaborne trade along the Red Sea coast during the Middle Kingdom. This volume presents the site's wide variety of ceramic material, offering also an interpretation of what pottery reveals about activities at the site.

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Wallace-Jones, Sally (Autor), Manzo, Andrea (Autor), Ownby, Mary F. (Autor), Kopetzky, Karin (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Summertown, Oxford : Archaeopress Pubishing Ltd, 2018.
Colección:Archaeopress Egyptology ; 20.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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520 8 |a The unique site of Mersa Gawasis was a base for seaborne trade along the Red Sea coast during the Middle Kingdom. This volume presents the site's wide variety of ceramic material, offering also an interpretation of what pottery reveals about activities at the site. 
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505 0 |a Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents Page -- List of Figures -- Foreword and acknowledgements -- Chronology of the Middle Kingdom -- Chapter One -- Introduction: Mersa Gawasis, the background -- Vessel content and capacity -- Chapter Two -- Overall chronology of the site -- Chronological Table of Excavation Units -- Figure 1. Marl B2/C Beer Bottle base resting in a Nile C pot stand -- Figure 2. Rim of a Marl AV2 carinated bowl with incised decoration from WG61 -- Figure 3. Rim similar to Figure 2, from WG71 -- Figure 4. Rims and body sherds with incised decoration 
505 8 |a Figure 5. The almost complete rim of a Marl AV3 water jar with thickened/rolled lip. -- Figure 6. The rim of a Marl AV3 water jar with a direct rim. -- Figure 7. Rim of a decorated marl AV3 bowl with clay button and incised deign -- Figure 8. Detail of incision on Figure 7 showing lines made in wet clay and puncture marks possibly done with a fish bone. -- Figure 10. Marl C bag-shaped cooking pot. -- Figure 9. Marl AV3 sherd with incised decoration and clay swirls. Note the clay creases inside the roll showing how it was finger rolled. -- Chapter Three -- The functioning of the site 
505 8 |a WG19: The production area -- WG 51 Selected body sherds -- WG 49 -- WG61 WG65 -- WG67 -- Pottery and spatial arrangement of the site -- Evidence for locally produced ceramics -- Re-use of pottery -- Ostraca -- Miniature and model vessels -- Discovery and identification of Middle Bronze Age Syro-Palestinian material -- Discovery and identification of Minoan material -- Conclusions -- Figure 11. Typical cup-shaped marl C rim from a large jar. This rim shape is very frequent at Mersa Gawasis. -- Figure12. Nile E cooker rim diameter approximately 14cm. 
505 8 |a Figure 13. Sherds of a large marl C jar coated on the inside with beeswax. Tracks showing where the soft wax was scraped out of the jar, can be seen clearly in the left-hand picture. -- Figure 14. Sherds of an unusual black jar before restoration. The high level of fragmentation can be seen. -- Figure 15. Wheel made based of the vessel in Figure 14 showing the pre-firing pot mark and the technology used to create the base, a turned ring base which appears to have been applied to the body. 
505 8 |a Figure 16. Sherds in Figure 14 after restoration, note the single nub handle on the left-hand side. There is no evidence of a spout suggesting that this was not a juglet. -- Figure 17. Marl AV2 closed vessel showing rilling lines inside and the smooth finish of the exterior. -- Figure 18. Ring base of Figure 17 showing the ring foot applied over the base which has been scraped. -- Figure 19. Pomegranate shaped vessels from WG 70. 
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