archéo -nil 135 ● n°31 -Septembre 2021
Keita Takenouchi, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan
Technical choices and processes of stone vessel manufacture under the reign of king Den: evidence from the Cemetery M at Abu Rawash
turing process of the cylindrical jars is also reconstructed. These cylindrical jars can be classified into two categories: high-quality and low-quality jars. The low-quality and small-sized jars were manufactured by a more intensive use of “figure-of-eight” shaped reamer. A comparison with quantitative data from other cemeteries at Abu Rawash and other Early Dynastic sites indicates that the low-quality and the small jars were probably supplied to Abu Rawash as “commoditized products” during the 2 nd Dynasty. Finally, the article discusses the increased use of rota-tional reaming techniques with a “figure-of-eight” shaped reamer in the manufacture of both cylindrical jars and bowls during the 2 nd
Dynasty.
