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Ceramic stand 1010

A painted stand from Cerro de los Vientos

Colours and residues preserve traces of an offering.

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Documentary photograph of the ceramic support 1010 with geometric decoration
ARQUIBERLAB · University of Jaén · CC BY-NC-ND 3.0

Documentary original · Exact correspondence

Documentary photograph of the digital resource linked by Arquiberlab. File preserved without alterations; its licence limits use to non-commercial purposes and does not allow derivative works.

University Institute of Research in Iberian Archaeology · University of Jaén · Arquiberlab · Creative Commons - Attribution, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND) 3.0

History and context

Support 1010, handmade, appeared in Tomb 5. Its decoration combines graphite, haematite and goethite. Analyses identified beeswax; the proposal that it derives from honey spilled from a bowl remains a hypothesis.

Evidence and interpretation

Pigments and wax identified analytically. The original content cannot be reduced with certainty to honey.

Catalogue facts

Date
8th–7th centuries BCE · orientalizing
Provenance
Tomb 5 · Cerro de los Vientos, Baeza (Jaén)
Measurements
21 cm in height · maximum diameter of 23.5 cm
Classification
Orientalizing antecedent, not full Iberian

A SHARED TOPIC, DIFFERENT MOMENTS

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A closer look

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A yellow that preserves a work sequence

Goethite loses its yellow above about 300 °C. Therefore, researchers interpret this decoration as a post-firing application. The pigment thus helps reconstruct the workshop’s work sequence, as well as identifying a colour.

From pigment to content traces

The analysis attributes the black bands to graphite and the red to haematite; decoration remnants also remained inside. Chromatography identified beeswax markers. The team proposes that the wax could have come from a bowl placed inside the support and suggests honey as a possible content. The chemical signal confirms wax, while the source vessel and what it contained remain interpretations of the funerary context.

Location and territory

Physical world map with routes of human evolutionPresent-day world coastline from Natural Earth in an equirectangular projection. The overlaid markers let you explore each milestone.Map base: Natural Earth 1:110m · public domain · present-day reference coastline

REGIONAL AREA

Cerro de los Vientos · surroundings of Puente del ObispoRegional marker of the surroundings of Puente del Obispo, not the coordinates of tomb 5.

Sources and references

Rotate the support in the Arquiberlab / esTRESd 3D viewer

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