Thuringian turntable ceramics

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In archaeological research, the Thuringian turntable ceramic, decorated with smoothing, is considered to be the characteristic vessel type of the late 5th and 6th centuries in the Middle Elbe - Saale area and in the Thuringian Basin .

The high-quality vessels are next produced for domestic use hand-shaped bowls, cups, Kümpfen found and bowls mainly in well-equipped graves, but also occur in settlements. The pottery trade of the old Thuringians can be easily understood using the archaeological material. Thuringians made their ceramics for their own use without a turntable in their house work. On the other hand-made pottery specialized hub vessels in technologically advanced kilns , to at manor houses of the Germanic elite were bound work huts. The vessels of old Thuringian production usually consist of finely slurried, light or dark gray to black fired clay with a smooth surface. Various ornaments were applied to this smooth surface by smoothing. In addition to turntable bowls, bottles, jugs and mugs are also less common.

The manufacture of the ornate Thuringian turntable vessels goes back to the earliest occurrences of the smoothing technique on Middle Danubian influences of the 5th century. It confirms the close cultural ties between the Thuringians and the Danube countryside, in which this type of decoration was common. The appearance of turntable vessels with smoothing patterns in Bohemia and the Prague area together with Thuringian notch cut primers suggest, according to Wolfgang Timpel, that the local population had joined the Thuringian Empire in the 6th century .

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b c Wolfgang Timpel: Thuringian. An important people and empire in Central Europe. House work and crafts . In: Sigrid Dušek (Ed.): Pre- and early history of Thuringia . Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 978-3-8062-1504-5 , pp. 143-166, here p. 153.

literature

  • Uwe Gross: The vessel from grave 65 of Heidelberg-Kirchheim and the smoothed Thuringian turntable ceramics in southwest Germany . In: Archäologische Nachrichten aus Baden 64. 2001, pp. 32–39. ( online , with pictures of the smoothed Thuringian turntable ceramic)
  • Wolfgang Timpel: Thuringian. An important people and empire in Central Europe. House work and crafts . In: Sigrid Dušek (Ed.): Pre- and early history of Thuringia . Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 978-3-8062-1504-5 , pp. 143-166.

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