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choosing the material
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Raw material: clays: | |
Nile silt (any clay that has been deposited by the river between Upper Pleistocene and the present) | Nile silt can be divided into 6 groups | |
marl (originating from shales and limestone found along the river between Esna and Cairo) | Marl can be divided into 5 Groups | |
levigation (only occasionally)
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trampling the clay |
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shaping the pot
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handmade ("pinching and hollowing") |
from the beginning (4500 BC) | |
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since Naqada II (3500 BC) | |
shaping over a core (patrix) |
since Early Dynastic Egypt (3000 BC) | |
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since 17th Dynasty (1650 BC) |
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handmade by ring building ('coiling') |
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since Fifth Dynasty (2400 BC) | |
drying in Sun
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applying a slip (and painting)
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firing
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open fire (maximum temperature: 860 C) | |
firing in a kiln (temperature: 1000 C and higher, better control over temperature) |
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