Pottery from Old Dongola (14th-18th century CE)

The files saved in .ods format present the results of the pottery studies carried out in the framework of the ERC Starting Grant "UMMA-Urban Metamorphosis of the Community of a Medieval African Capital City" in Old Dongola, Sudan. They were obtained during the pottery processing according to the protocol accepted for the Late Christian and Islamic pottery in Old Dongola (Wodzińska 2022). The project studied the transformations during the Christian and Islamic occupations of Old Dongola, a key political center in the Middle Nile Valley. It focused on pottery analysis to understand changes in vessel production and use, as well as their role in the region's socio-economic landscape.

The file "DongolaPottery_ContextLogin" contains general information about the pottery recorded for each archaeological context, such as season, sector, square, context, unit (if applicable), dating, bag number (if applicable), inventory number (if applicable). The pottery is organized with quantity and weight data for sherds (total per context), handmade, wheel-made, and redeposited pottery fragments. The following fields contain remarks, date of processing and entry's author.

The DongolaPottery_DiagnosticLog file is a detailed log of all diagnostic vessels recorded for each archaeological context. It contains all the information about the archaeological context as the other file. Description of each diagnostic pottery fragment includes class, type, vessel part, quantity, production technique, and fabric type. Decoration (type, place, color) and glaze, potmark descriptions occur if applicable. The following fields contain dimensions, weight, traces of use (if applicable), remarks, date of processing, and entry's author. The typology used in this dataset is based on Danys 2022 and a forthcoming publication by the same author.