Pottery Restoration Lab
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Tel. 972-3-6409323
Rachel Pelta Yafit Wilner Pottery retrieved from Institute excavations is brought to the 160-square-meter restoration lab at Tel Aviv University. Obviously, not all the potsherds unearthed find their way to the restoration table. Expedition staff selects material from contexts where it seems clear that complete vessels can be put together. These become the pots displayed in museum vitrines. But restoration is not only about museum-quality pottery; it is also about tracing depositional processes—how and where the sherds moved after vessels broke. This provides important information about a settlement's history. In recent years, pottery from Megiddo, Jaffa, Beth Shemesh and Wadi 'Ara has been processed in the lab. |
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