pottery

Archaeology

Shimmering Waste – New Evidence for Lead-Glazed Pottery Production in Pergamon

Nicole Neuenfeld

New findings from Pergamon reveal evidence of local lead-glazed pottery production, dating to the late Hellenistic and early Imperial periods. Production waste, including misfired vessels and stacking devices, was found in rubbish layers on the city’s northern East Slope. These discoveries highlight Pergamon’s urban production infrastructure and raise questions about the region’s specialized, resource-intensive ceramic craftsmanship and its eventual decline.

 P07 Publications EN

Report on the archaeological and geological science research in Ethiopia by the project ‚Routes of Interaction‘, 2018-2019

Johanna Sigl

The project »Routes of Interaction« is a collaboration between the Sanaa Branch of the Orient-Department, the Department of Earth Sciences – Physical Geography of the Freie Universität Berlin and the Egyptian Museum – Georg Steindorff, Leipzig University. Embedded into the SPP Programme of the DFG »Entangled Africa«, field work has been carried out since 2018. […]

 Allgemein EN

Wavy Line and Herringbone

Ann-Katharin Bahr

Ceramic processing must be flexible, able to adapt to the conditions of excavation and object. At the same time, the records of those working on this find genre from different regions should be comparable. Done to speed up and standardize the ceramic recording on site, the elaboration of the catalogue was successfully completed. […]

 P02 Publications EN

Report of the ‚Connecting Foodways‘ project on 2019s work in Sudan

Johanna Sigl

Focusing on past culinary practices, the “Connecting Foodways” project explores cross-cultural connections and technological transmission between the Middle Nile Valley and central and eastern Africa during the early Iron Age (ca. 1000 BC – 1000 AD). It is one of twelve projects of the DFG Priority Program “Entangled Africa” (SPP 2143), which explores inner-African relations and thereby develops new perspectives for joint archaeological research in Africa. […]