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1892.61.13

Pottery sherd. A grey-brown rim piece with a straight profile and cord marks all over the surface. It was a bag-shaped vessel. [Fumiko Ohinata, Japanese Archaeology Project 1996-2000]

1892.61.13

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Collection type
Object
Description
Pottery sherd. A grey-brown rim piece with a straight profile and cord marks all over the surface. It was a bag-shaped vessel. [Fumiko Ohinata, Japanese Archaeology Project 1996-2000]
Geographical reference
Japan
Asia > Eastern Asia > Japan
Omori
Cultural groups
Japanese
Date / Period
Date made: Circa 200-1 BC Archaeological period: Jōmon 縄文時代
Date collected
1878 ?
Acquisition information
Transferred: 02/1892, uncertain Loaned: 02/1892, uncertain
Materials and processes
Material Pottery, Process Impressed, Process Decorated
Dimensions
Length: max 78 mm, Width: max 78 mm, Depth: max 7 mm, Weight 61.4 g
Object numbers
Accession number: 1892.61.13 Other numbers: JAC 428
Research and responses

Possibly 1st or 2nd cents. B.C. cf. Gowland 'The dolmens.' Trans. and Proc. of the Jap. Soc. IV pt.III. [status of this info?]

The full reference for the article mentioned above is: Gowland, W. 1898. The Dolmens of Japan and their builders. Transactions and proceedings of the Japan Society, London vol. IV, part 3. [MN 11/02/2010]

Listed and described as JAC 428 on pages 123 - 124 of the unpublished draft typescript 'The Japanese Archaeology Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford', by Fumiko Ohinata and Jeremy Coote (dated 2002): ‘Pottery ... Jomon pottery ... Japanese Jomon pottery is renowned for its antiquity as it is more than 12,000 years old ... Pottery from this period has a great variety of shapes and decoration, including the characteristic cord-marking (jomon), which has given its name to the whole period. It should be noted, however, that not all pottery of the Jomon period has cord mark decorations. The jomon pottery provides the terminology after which the period is named and not the criteria by which it is assigned ... JAC 428; Plate 59.5 / Hokkaido, Omori / 7.8×7.8×0.7 cm; 61.4 g / A grey-brown rim piece with a straight profile and cord marks all over the surface. It was a bag-shaped vessel. Inscribed in red ink, “Omori, 1878. There is evidence of old exhibition mount marks (which probably appeared before the object was donated to the Pitt Rivers Museum). / PRM 1892.61.13.' Also illustrated in Plate 59.5. (Copy of typescript in RDF: Researchers: Ohinata and Coote). [MN 24/03/2010]

Search terms: Pottery, Vessel, Sherd

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