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July 07, 2006
Friday Pot Blogging
The small juglet pictured below is just a little under 10 cm high (9.6 cm for those who demand more accuracy). It is typical of a type of burnished black slip Iron Age II (1000 - 586 BCE) juglets from Judah. This particular example is likely from the period between 900 and 800 BCE but could be earlier or later. Notice the rounded base (a ring for a curtain rod supports the juglet in the picture) and the flaring neck with the handle attached about half way up the neck. See the type example in Amiran pl 87, 13.
This particular example shows signs of modern repair to the handle and at least part of the upper neck. The whole of the top of the neck, from handle attachment upwards may be a reconstructed. I believe the black slip was also redone in the areas of the repair at a minimum. Signs of the repair to the neck are most evident on the inside of the neck at handle height. This is a very common place for these juglets to break. I know of a couple of museum samples with the neck broken at handle attachment height. And I recently saw an advertisement for this type of juglet on an antiquities dealer's website (link withheld on purpose) that claimed that it was "short necked" but the reason it was "short necked" is that the neck had been broken off at the upper handle attachment point. Caveat emptor!
If the more of less equivalent juglet was from the north it would have a "knob" like structure at the very base (Amiran, pl. 86, 12) or even a small flat base (Amiran, pl, 86, 13). The neck would also often be nearly straight.
While there are common forms, it is interesting that it is possible for archaeologists to distinguish many Iron Age II pottery traditions between those from the north and those from the south of Israel. It is often thought that pottery types from the south became more sophisticated than their northern counterparts. These differences are certainly evidence of somewhat differing cultural traditions between Judah in the south and Israel in the north. How much they differed, the pottery alone cannot tell us.
I do not believe that any domestic or industrial use has ever been determined or even suggested for the type of juglet pictured in this post. It is usually considered votive and is most frequently found in Iron Age II graves.
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Posted by DuaneSmith at July 7, 2006 02:50 PM | Read more on Archaeology |
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