New Considerations on the Relationship between Predynastic Spiral-Patterned D-Ware Pottery and Breccia Vessels. The Contribution of an Unpublished Vessel from the Macquarie University History Museum (MU5038)
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Eman Khalifa
Abstract
Based on a comparable color scheme, Naqada II decorated pottery (D-ware) with spiral motifs is often described as an imitation of breccia stone vessels. Using MU5038 as an example, this article traced the time line of development for both during Naqada II. Results indicated that pottery with spiral motifs did not appear as an imitation of stone vessels, as previously thought. This article proposed that they appeared earlier with breccia vessels following as luxurious versions. The latter point could be justified by the need of the rising elite of the period to use raw materials, whose sources they controlled. Stone quarries being located outside of the Nile Valley allowed for this control. In an attempt to explain the sudden occurrence and significance of spiral motifs on D-ware pottery, this article uses analogy and “ethnographic imagination” (Lane 2005) to shed light on the origins of spiral motifs in different cultures.
ملخص
نظراً لتشابه الألوان، يعتبر الفخار ذو الزخارف المرسومة على هيئة أشكال حلزونية الذي يرجع لعصر نقادة الثانية نسخاً من الأواني الحجرية المصنوعة من حجر البريشيا. مستعينة بإناء من متحف جامعة ماكويري كنموذج، تتبعت هذه المقالة تطور هذين النوعين من الأواني خلال نقادة الثانية. أشارت النتائج إلى أن الفخار ذا الزخارف الحلزونية الشكل لم يظهر كمحاكاة للأواني الحجرية، كما كان يعتقد سابقاً. تقترح هذه المقالة أن الأواني الفخارية من هذا النوع ظهرت مسبقاً ثم تلتها الأواني الحجرية المصنوعة من البريشيا كمنتج فاخر. عللت المقالة النتيجة السابقة بحاجة طبقة علية القوم الصاعدة خلال تلك الفترة لاستخدام مواد خام يمكن لها أن تتحكم في مصادرها، وقد سمح تواجد المحاجر خارج وادي النيل بهذه السيطرة. وكمحاولة لتفسير معنى الأشكال الحلزونية على الفخار ذي الزخارف الملونة في ضوء هذه النتائج، قامت هذه المقالة بالاستعانة بمنهجي المحاكاة والتخيل الإثنوجرافي الذي اقترحة لين عام 2005 لإلقاء بعض الضوء على معنى الأشكال الحلزونية في بعض ثقافات ما قبل التاريخ والمجتمعات البدائية الحديثة.
Zusammenfassung
Aufgrund eines vergleichbaren Farbschemas wird dekorierte Keramik (sog. D-Ware) aus Naqada II mit Spiralmotiven oft als Nachahmung von Breccia-Gefäßen beschrieben. Am Beispiel von Gefäß MU5038 wird in diesem Artikel die zeitliche Entwicklung beider Formen in Naqada II nachgezeichnet. Die Ergebnisse deuten darauf hin, dass Keramik mit Spiralmotiven nicht, wie bisher angenommen, als Nachahmung von Steingefäßen auftrat. In diesem Artikel wird vorgeschlagen, dass sie früher auftraten, bevor Breccia-Gefäße als luxuriöse Versionen folgten. Letzteres läßt sich mit dem Bedürfnis der aufstrebenden Elite jener Zeit begründen, spezielle Rohstoffe zu nutzen, deren Quellen sie kontrollierte. Steinbrüche, die sich außerhalb des Niltals befanden, ermöglichten diese Kontrolle. Bei dem Versuch, das plötzliche Vorkommen und die Bedeutung der Spiralmotive auf D-Ware zu erklären, werden in diesem Artikel Analogie sowie die „ethnografische Vorstellungskraft“ (Lane 2005) eingesetzt, um die Herkunft von Spiralmotiven in verschiedenen Kulturen zu beleuchten.
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- Stepan Stepanenko (ed.), A Viking Century. Chernihiv Area from 900 to 1000 AD (Occasional Monographs, Hlib Ivakin Memorial Series 6). Paris, Association des Amis du Centre d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance (ACHCByz), 2022. 636 S., zahlreiche farbige und S/W-Abb., Tab. ISBN 978-2-916716-88-6.
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelseiten
- Abhandlungen
- The Late Palaeolithic in Toruń Basin in the light of the latest research in Brzoza, Site 50
- Verifying the chronology of Ukrainian Neolithic
- Settlement layout and social organisation in the mid-6th Millennium BC at Uğurlu on the island of Gökçeada, North-eastern Aegean
- Early farming settlement of the marginal zone of loess uplands and its palaeoenvironmental context – a case study of the Iłża Piedmont (S Poland)
- Macrolithic flint products from inventories of adult male graves of the Lublin-Volhynian culture – prestige goods or everyday use items – by the example of grave No. 2/1987 from site 1C in Gródek, Hrubieszów District (Poland)
- Pit-houses of the Stone Age Belarus in the 4th millennium BC
- Technologies and standards in ceramic production of middle–late Trypillya culture
- Late Tripolye Culture Settlement Spatial Pattering: Case study from the Gordineşti II-Stînca goală site, Northern Moldova
- New Considerations on the Relationship between Predynastic Spiral-Patterned D-Ware Pottery and Breccia Vessels. The Contribution of an Unpublished Vessel from the Macquarie University History Museum (MU5038)
- Chronology of the Seima-Turbino bronzes, early Shang Dynasty and Santorini eruption
- Identifying the original function of vessels deposited in Lusatian Urnfield burials: the case of the Czernikowice cemetery (Poland)
- Traces of a “new” Metalcraft Specialisation: A unique Late Bronze Age Burial at Karzec Cemetery
- Five hoards in eighty years. Landscape perspectives on new Bronze Age hoard finds around Lake Mälaren in Sweden
- A Final Bronze Age hoard from Cierpice, Poland: new evidence for the use and deposition of a horse bridle in the region
- Kuyavian bronzes or Stanomin-style dress accessories – studies on the chronology of the early Iron Age in Central Europe
- Research methodology of the zolnik (ash hill) at the Scythian cultural circle hillfort in Chotyniec
- A gold coin from Jastrzębniki, Kalisz district (PL). On the late Celtic coinage in north-central Europe
- Pilipenkova Gora – eine Siedlung der Zarubincy-Kultur am Mittleren Dnjepr
- Opening graves and turtles. The pond turtle (Emys orbicularis L.) from the cemetery of the Wielbark Culture in Czarnówko and the question of post-funeral interferences in the past
- The marketplace landscape in Santok in the 8th–9th century, NW Poland
- Rezensionen
- Stepan Stepanenko (ed.), A Viking Century. Chernihiv Area from 900 to 1000 AD (Occasional Monographs, Hlib Ivakin Memorial Series 6). Paris, Association des Amis du Centre d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance (ACHCByz), 2022. 636 S., zahlreiche farbige und S/W-Abb., Tab. ISBN 978-2-916716-88-6.
