par Bavay, Laurent 
Référence Vienna 2: Ancient Egyptian Ceramics in the 21st Century (14-18 mai 2012: Universität Wien (Autriche))
Publication Non publié, 2012-05-18
Référence Vienna 2: Ancient Egyptian Ceramics in the 21st Century (14-18 mai 2012: Universität Wien (Autriche))
Publication Non publié, 2012-05-18
Communication à un colloque
| Résumé : | The excavation led by the University of Brussels in Theban tomb 29 revealed that the monument had been transformed into a Coptic hermitage during the early 8th cent. AD, probably part of a larger semi-anachoretic community settled on the southern slope of Sheikh Abd el-Qurna hill. The discovery of more than 800 Coptic ostraca associated with this hermitage provides an exceptional source of information on the daily life of its inhabitant, a revered monk called Frange. Several letters among this archive refer to pottery, one being a unique document where the anchorite asks a potter to make him a pot according to very specific caracteristics. It illustrates a rarely considered (or documented) aspect of pottery production, i.e. the role of direct relations between the potter and the final user at local level. Such small-scale production meeting the particular needs of the customers probably accounts for a significative part of the pottery assemblages discovered in the Theban necropolis (and beyond), next to the ubiquitous standardized finewares produced in the Aswan area. The pottery from the Coptic settlement in TT 29 offers the opportunity to examine this question, based on a chronogically and functionally well defined archaeological context in direct relation with the written sources. |
