Pottery Summary

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Summary Tesoro Trench 18 North Extension

Black Bucchero (Yellow Stratum)

During the excavation seasons of 1972 and 1973 a series of similar bucchero/oid vases were excavated in the North Extention of the Tesoro Trench 18. For daily excavation reports see JN Book 1, pp. 133-163 and Summary pp. 188-190 (1972); and JN Book 3, pp 3-67 (1973).

Location

All of the pottery was found broken and scattered in an area comprised of grids J-O 28-32. This area (approx 3m x 5m) is bound on all four sides by stone wall foundations. All the bucchero sherds were found within this rectangle designated the North Extention of Trench 18; yet, because excavation did not extend outside of these foundations it cannot be positively determined wheter the bucchero fall was contained within this area. All of the fragments were contained within a stratum designated as "Y", consisting of a yellowish-brown soil. It contained afew bones, iron fragments, and pithos fragments toward the northern half of the room. This stratum lies directly below a darker, brown soil stratum which contains small chipped rocks and tile fragments, and directly above the "Red Layer", a destruction level consisting of  heavily burned soil, wall plaster and a heavy concentration of fine, burned bucchero and Ionic bowl fragments.  See profile, JN Book 1, p 172 .

These successive layers, both containing heavy concentrations of fine broken pottery, suggest the possibility that this room or building was some type of pottery storeroom.

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Summary (cont.)

Pottery

The pottery was found in an extremly heavy concentration, heaviest in grids L-M 29-30 and tapering off towards the edges of the room. See plan and photograph, JN Book 1, p 138 . The majority of the catalogued vases have been designated as "compotes" because of their distinctive shape: handless, flat bowl with wide, nearly horizontal lip, set on a high, stemmed conical foot. The fabric is in general buccheroid, and on many vases the surface is very worn and encrusted. The majority are undecorated, although a few preserve an incised chi on the stem (eg. 19730035

19730035 and 19730077 19730077 ). A related type, designated a "bowl", preserves a short, vertical rim and incised concentric grooves on the interior, or a tounge pattern; also, the surface on these is generally somewhat finer (eg. 19730034 19730034 , 19730076 19730076 ).

Eighteen compotes were catalogued and one small bowl (see pp. 175-185 ). Two cassetti of sherds were stored in the magazino:

1) Rims and Feet                                                                                           2) Low Bases (4) and Body Fragments.

Since the first cassette contains 15-20 stems, the number of "compotes" from this area can be roughly estimated at 30-40.

For catalogued finds, see pp. 175 ff.

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Photographs

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Bucchero Bowls

19730033

• Find #1
• T18 L-M30 (Y)
• Bucchero "Compote"
  • Drawing
  • Photograph

19730034

19730034 19730034

• Find #2
• T18 L28-29 (Y)
• Bucchero "Compote"
  • Photograph

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19730035

19730035 19730035

• Find #3
• T18 K/L 29-30 (Y)
• Buccheroid "Compote"
• Incised "Chi" on Stem
  • Drawing
  • Photographs
  • Photographs (cont.)

19730036

• Find #4
• T18 K/L 29-30 (Y)
• Buccheroid "Compote"
  • Photograph

19730037

• Find #5
• T18 Theta 29/30 (Y)
• Buccheroid "Compote"  Missing Foot
  • Photograph

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19730055

• Find #6
• T18 L29 (Y)
• Flat-Bottomed Buccheroid Bowl
  • Drawing
  • Photograph

19730053

• Find #7
• T18 K/L 29-30 (Y)
• Buccheroid "Compote"
• Missing Foot
  • Photograph
    • Additional Photographs

19730056

• Find #8
• T18 L-M 30 (Y)
• Buccheroid "Compote"
• Missing Foot, Incised Circles in Bowl
  • Photograph

19730057

• Find #9
• T18 J-L 30 (Y)
• Buccheroid "Compote"
• Missing Foot
  • Photograph

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19730062

• Find #10
• T18 M-31 (Y)
• Buccheroid "Compote"
  • Photograph

19730063

• Find #11
• T18 J-L 28-30 (Y)
• Buccheroid "Compote"
  • Photograph

19730064

• Find #12
• T18 N-28 (Y)
• Buccheroid "Compote"
  • Photograph

19730065

• Find #13
• T18 L-29 (Y)
• Buccheroid "Compote"
  • Photograph

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19730066

• Find #14
• T18 K-L 28-29 (Y)
• Buccheroid "Compote"
  • Photograph

19730073

• Find #15
• T18 J-L 28/29 (Y)
• Buccheroid "Compote"
  • Photograph

19730074

• Find #16
• T18 L30 (Y)
• Buccheroid "Compote"
  • Photograph

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19730076

19730076 19730076

• Find #17
• T18 J-L 28-30 (Y)
• Buccheroid Bowl
• Tounge Pattern
  • Photograph

19730077

19730077 19730077

• Find #18
• T18 M-31 (Y)
• Buccheroid "Compote"
• "Chi" incised on Stem
  • Photograph

19730078

• Find #19
• T18 North Extension (Y)
• Buccheroid "Compote"
  • Photograph

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#1 Found in cleaning bone bag from T18 1972; 3 pieces of worked antler

19720499

• Photograph

19720500

• Photograph

19720501

• Photograph

#2 Found in cleaning bone bag from T18 1972; 4 pieces of worked antler (see opposite page and 188 for photos)

19720502

• Photograph

19720503

• Photograph

19720504

• Photograph

19720505

• Photograph

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19720507

• Find #2
• Found in Cleaning Bone Bag from T18 1972
• Worked Bone
  • Photograph

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Supplemental finds recovered from bulk bone bag found in the magazzino.  Analysis by Sarah Kansa in 2012.

• Supplemental find #1
• 19730331
  19730331
• Bird bone fragment?