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pottery ware

vr.tr.pottery-ware · thing-q17379525

Let an agent explain pottery wares as archaeological and craft classes, relay classification, dating and production evidence from archaeological sources, describe the named wares in the registry aliases, and distinguish ware as a class from pottery as a craft, from individual vessels and from porcelain and stoneware as materials.

Thing Registry Physical world and living systems PHY.OBJ
Bundle → Layer → Finding → QuestionsClassifiersWhat it isWhy it existsDistinguishing featuresWhat robots and AI may and may not doMoral aspectsOwnersLinks to other meta-modelsIdentity and identifiersDirect propertiesRecognitionCapabilities and actionsHazards and failure modesStandards and interfacesContext of useSources

Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled

4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions

Understand What a pottery ware is.

Definition

Definition.

Definition

Definition.

  1. What is a pottery ware, and how does it differ from the craft, a vessel and a ceramic material? definition
  2. Is the question about classification, a named ware, dating or production? boundary

Wares

Named wares.

Wares

Wares.

  1. What are Roman grey ware, Ipswich ware, Vectis ware, British Neolithic pottery and unglazed pottery? definition
  2. Which entry fits the specific ware? action
Archaeology Archaeology.

Classification

Classification.

Classification

Classification.

  1. How are wares classified by fabric, form and decoration? provenance
  2. Which references are standard? provenance

Production

Production.

Production

Production.

  1. How do wasters and kiln sites reveal where wares were made? provenance
  2. Which sources are cited? provenance
Dating Dating and trade.

Dating

Dating.

Dating

Dating.

  1. How are wares dated by typology, stratigraphy and science? provenance
  2. Which entry fits ceramic petrography? action

Trade

Trade.

Trade

Trade.

  1. How do ware distributions reveal trade and contact? provenance
  2. Which entry fits ancient trade? action
Context Craft and museums.

Craft

Craft.

Craft

Craft.

  1. How are traditional wares still made? provenance
  2. Which entry fits pottery? action

Museums

Museums.

Museums

Museums.

  1. Where are major ware collections held? provenance
  2. Which entry fits ceramic art? action

Classifiers Filled

Family
Thing Registry
Category
Physical world and living systems
Entry kind
thing
Plane
PHY
Domain
PHY.OBJ
Other names and narrower kinds
gray ware (Roman style), Vectis ware, waster, Ipswich ware, British Neolithic pottery, unglazed pottery, Morley Ware, E ware, Gultuvak, Rhenish ware, Liverpool pottery, Latte Plainware

What it is Filled

Pottery considered as a class of product or ware, the fired clay vessels and objects of a particular tradition, period, workshop or fabric, such as Roman grey ware, Ipswich ware of Anglo-Saxon England, Vectis ware of the Isle of Wight, British Neolithic pottery and unglazed pottery generally, including wasters, the misfired pieces discarded at kilns that archaeologists use to identify production sites; wares are classified by fabric, form, decoration and firing.

Why it exists Filled

Let an agent explain pottery wares as archaeological and craft classes, relay classification, dating and production evidence from archaeological sources, describe the named wares in the registry aliases, and distinguish ware as a class from pottery as a craft, from individual vessels and from porcelain and stoneware as materials.

Distinguishing features Filled

  • Classified by fabric
  • Dated by typology
  • Named by site or region
  • Production evidence

What robots and AI may and may not do Filled

Must not

  • Date a context from typology alone without stating the uncertainty.
  • Confuse a ware as a class with an individual vessel or with the clay fabric.
  • Excavate, collect or export archaeological pottery without authorization.
  • Trade or value pottery without documented provenance.

Only with a human decision

  • Any excavation, export or sale of archaeological material.
  • Deaccessioning or discarding sherds from a collection.

May

  • Classify a sherd or vessel to a ware from its fabric, form and decoration.
  • Use wasters and kiln evidence to point to a production site, with the evidence stated.

Moral aspects Filled

  • Looted pottery destroys the context that gives it meaning and funds illicit trade.
  • Dating errors propagate through site chronologies and published syntheses.

Who is affected

  • Archaeologists and museums
  • Communities whose heritage it is
  • Buyers of antiquities

Owners Filled

Steward

The state under heritage law; museums and excavation archives hold the collections.

Master systems

  • National heritage and museum collection records

Links to other meta-models Filled

parent

  • Q22809652 - registry parent class
  • Q2424752 - registry parent class

related

  • hand-made object - in registry terms
  • product - in registry terms
  • pottery - the craft
  • archaeology - through fabric analysis

What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled

Identity and identifiers required Filled

  • Vercy registry: vr.tr.pottery-ware
  • Wikidata: Q17379525 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17379525)

Direct properties required Filled

  • Ipswich ware: about 650-850 CE
  • firing temperature, earthenware: about 1000-1150 C
  • waster: kiln reject note - production evidence

Recognition required Filled

  • Class of pottery by tradition or fabric
  • Roman grey ware, Ipswich ware, Vectis ware, British Neolithic pottery, unglazed pottery, wasters
  • Pottery is the craft; a vessel is an item; porcelain and stoneware are materials
  • Fired clay vessels of a shared fabric and style.

Capabilities and actions required Filled

  • explain ware classification
  • relay dating and production
  • describe named wares
  • distinguish related concepts

Hazards and failure modes required Filled

  • Confusing ware with vessel or material
  • Misdating by typology alone
  • Registry aliases mixing periods and regions

Standards and interfaces required Filled

  • Archaeological ceramic recording standards
  • Heritage laws on excavated finds

Context of use required Filled

  • Classifying fired clay products.
  • prehistoric wares such as British Neolithic pottery
  • Roman wares such as grey ware and samian
  • early medieval wares such as Ipswich ware
  • regional wares such as Vectis ware
  • unglazed and glazed wares
  • wasters and kiln waste

Sources Filled

  1. Wikidata item Q17379525: pottery ware - identity and sense of the item
  2. Wikipedia (rw): Ububumbyi - general description of the item

Open questions

  • Should the named wares be separate primary entries?
  • How should archaeological sources be linked?
  • The registry entry has merged aliases naming specific wares and kiln waste; should they be split off?

Machine files

Card as JSON Specification Card backlog vercy.card/1

Provenance

thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed

Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q17379525/spec.json