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The International Potmark Workshop
The International Potmark Workshop
Since the publication in the early 1990-ies of the Thinitische Töpfmarken (Helck 1990) and the Corpus and numerical evaluation of the "Thinite" potmarks
(van den Brink 1992), only few studies dealing specifically with Early
Dynastic pottery 'inscriptions' have appeared until very recently (Adams
and Porat 1996; Engel 1997; Kroeper 2000; Gilroy et al. 2001). Notable
exception to this situation are a number of studies dealing exclusively
with the incised serekh-signs (van den Brink 1996, 2001; Dreyer 1999; Gilroy 2001; Köhler and van den Brink 2002; van den Brink and Braun 2002).
Lately the publication of the final potmark corpus of the
Predynastic/Early Dynastic cemetery at Minshat Abu Omar (Kroeper 2000),
and the pre-publication of provisional corpora of newly uncovered
potmarks, deriving from in particular late Predynastic/Early Dynastic
Delta sites at Kafr Hassan Dawood (102 potmarks; Hassan et al. in
press), Tell el-Farkha (51 potmarks exclusively from the cemetery site;
Jucha in press), Tell el-Samara, Tell el-Dab'a/Qana'an and Heluan (cf.
Köhler and Smythe 2004), and Adaïma in Upper Egypt (Bréand 2005) have
given a new impetus to further this line of research.
As a consequence of the renewed interest in Early Dynastic potmarks and
with the formal approval of the Scientific Committee of the second
international conference on Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt. Origin of the State, which took place from the 5th – 8th of September 2005 in Toulouse, France, an International Potmark Workshop was established at the end of the former conference in preparation of the next conference on Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt. Origin of the State, to be held in 2008 in London, England.
The present data-base driven web-site Potmark-Egypt.com,
containing over 3360 individual Early Dynastic potmarks, is but a tool-
as yet still unfinished- to further and hopefully facilitate research
and - through the Forum - communication amongst the 20 odd participants
to this Workshop.
Although the workshop's main focus is on potmarks from the Proto- and
Early Dynastic periods (Dynasties 0-2), several workshop participants
will bring in their expertise concerning Old Kingdom and Middle Kingdom
potmarks as well, thus providing hopefully a diachronic perspective to
the subject matter at hand as well as the possibility of a study in
contrasts.
A first progress report of the Workshop will be presented during the third conference on Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt. Origin of the State to be held in London, England, in 2008.
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