Ancient Egyptian pottery

 

Pottery was produced ancient Egyptians from the very early period. This pottery was of great importance for the archaeologists to understand vary archaic periods, the study of this pottery became much more valid and understood in the recent year it has clarified things throughout the ears of Egyptian history mostly the predynastic periods. They would collect shards of parts of pottery and put it under a machine called a radiocarbon which would give the exact whereabouts of the pottery production. The Egyptians used the pottery as containers as we use them in the modern day. 

From the studies they are managed to undercover more and more questions on regional development and trade line predynastic sites in palestinian region have yielded pottery made of mud from Nile. Modern archaeological sciences have new tools to analyze the content of the pottery giving us insight to the use of various pottery items 

Pottery from predynastic Egypt was often high quality. Pottery from Badarian was created with use of the wheel and apparently it was the woman who turned out the pottery. 

These amazing pottery pieces were burnished to a lustrous finish and after firing they were left with a black upper color and a red lower section, it is assumed that they would fire there pots in either  a primitive kiln or just a plain open fire 'fire pit' . Free hand painting was used on the pottery from the Naqada period (4000-3000 BC) until the dynastic period depicting figures of animals, boats, patterns and humans. 

In the Old Kingdom we start to see the use of the wheel it started just as a turn table but later on changed into the proper wheel still being turned manually, this step up in technology required better preparation of clay to handle more control over whilst firing. Although they had the wheel they would still use their previous techniques for certain items example, bread moulds continued to be handmade around a core called a patrix. 

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