The pottery of Nineveh 5 is considered one the most beautiful ‎pottery in Mesopotamia, ‎period dating back to beginning ‎the third millennium B.C and contemporary period ‎of Jamdet ‎Nasr. This type was discovered for first time ‎fifth layer city Nineveh, a different ‎ manner from ‎previous periods. north Mesopotamia country ‎rich ‎this kind pottery, which these sites. ‎The Tell Lashkar, ‎is loc...

abstract today, pottery in shahreza of isfahan is a valuable arts with its up and downs which has stabilized  its place among iranian pottery centers. the investigation of contemporary pottery in the course of  history shows that iranian potters have used predecessors' experiences, as well as remained  professions of pottery art such as soheili, bahari and fakhar, and tried to promote qual...

Pottery is a mainstay of archaeological analysis worldwide. Often, high proportions of the pottery recovered from a given site are decorated in some manner. In northern Iroquoia, late pre-contact pottery and early contact decoration commonly occur on collars-thick bands of clay that encircle a pot and extend several centimeters down from the lip. These decorations constitute signals that convey...

Firing is a crucial step in the production of pottery, as it irreversibly transforms clay into ceramic. Clay sintering and subsequent vitrification occur during firing, together with other transformations undergone by specific minerals rock inclusions according to their optical physical properties, including colour. Some these are visible thin-sections might be interpreted technological markers...

Using pottery clay, porous ceramic stones were molded and then decorated with copper sub-microparticles inside the pores. Copper added antimicrobial functionality to the clay-based ceramic and showed ability in disinfecting water. Populations of both Staphylococcus aureus and Klebsiella pneumoniae in contaminated water were reduced by >99.9% in 3 h when exposed to an antimicrobial stone. This a...