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Issue 91
HISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGY, ETHNOGRAPHY
UDK: 902/903
CERAMICS WITH COATED SURFACE FROM THE IRGANAY SETTLEMENT I OF THE MIDDLE BRONZE AGE
ATAEV Gamzat Dibirovich,
SAYPUDINOV Murad Sh.
The article is devoted to a comprehensive study of ceramics with surface coated with liquid clay revealed during excavations in Mountainous Daghestan of the Irganai settlement I of the Middle Bronze Age. Statistical and stratigraphic observations allow to conclude that there are no special differences in the quantitative ratio between smooth, polished and coated ceramics of this settlement. The work on the typological study of the ceramics has been carried out. On the other hand, the ceramics collection of the Irganai settlement I has also been subjected to technical and technological analysis based on the methodology developed by A.A. Bobrinsky. As a result it has been possible to reconstruct some cultural traditions in the pottery of the population of the Irganai valley in the Middle Bronze Age. The potters of the Irganai valley used hardened clays of medium and high plasticity to manufacture the vessels under study. Artificial mineral impurities that are part of the molding mass are chamotte and dredge. All this made it possible to identify 5 recipes for composing the molding mass. A separate tracological study of the liquid clay itself, with which the surface of the vessels is coated, reveals two different traditions of manufacturing the molding mass for application to vessels: "clay + manure; clay + organic solution". The conducted experiment allows to draw a number of conclusions: 1) coating with liquid clay was applied to the vessels immediately after construction or after some time; 2) the vessel was coated immediately after completion of construction with liquid clay brought to a semi-liquid state from the molding mass of the vessel itself. If the surface of the vessel was coated some time later, after its incomplete drying, then, in this case, the composition of the molding mass for coating changed. As a result, it has been found out that the coating of the vessel surface does not have a technological load but exclusively decorative character.
Pages: 44 - 52
Date: 22.12.2023