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HOW AND WHY POTMARKS MATTER
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Near Eastern Archaeology
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March 1, 2008
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Copyright informationCopyright American Schools of Oriental Research Mar-Jun 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Potmarks lie in a no-man's land, not quite within the usual parameters of ceramic studies, not usually a concern for epigraphists. Although many excavations have yielded some potmarks, they are not a regular feature of publication. But potmarks found in Bronze Age contexts in Cyprus occupy an unusual position in the archaeology of the Bronze Age Mediterranean: they are regularly noticed and published.
The term potmark is intentionally neutral. A potmark might be a sign borrowed from the formal script of written texts, or it might be a numeral, an abbreviation, an ideogram, or monogram. Or it may be just a mark, randomly conceived. The term potmark also gives no indication of function. A ...
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