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The pots and potters of Assyria : technology and organization of

production, ceramics sequence and vessel function at Late Bronze Age

Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria

Duistermaat, K.

Citation

Duistermaat, K. (2007, March 21). The pots and potters of Assyria : technology and

organization of production, ceramics sequence and vessel function at Late Bronze Age Tell

Sabi Abyad, Syria. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/1887/11416

Version: Corrected Publisher’s Version

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Institutional Repository of the University of Leiden

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The Pots and Potters of Assyria

Technology and organization of production, ceramic sequence, and vessel function

at Late Bronze Age Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria.

Proefschrift ter verkrijging van

de graad van Doctor aan de Universiteit Leiden, op gezag van Rector Magnificus prof.mr. P.F. van der Heijden,

volgens besluit van het College voor Promoties te verdedigen op woensdag 21 maart 2007

klokke 15.00 uur door Kim Duistermaat geboren te Utrecht

in 1971

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Promotiecommissie:

Promotor: Prof. dr. P.M.M.G. Akkermans

Referenten: Prof. Dr. C.L. Costin

California State University, Northridge

Prof. Dr. P.M. Rice

Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

Overige leden: Prof. dr. W.J.H. Willems Prof. dr. J. Bintliff

Dr. A. van As

This PhD. thesis was supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), grant number 365-62-003 and grant number R 28-530, as well as by the Foundation for Anthropology and Prehistory in the Netherlands (SNMAP).

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“You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands.

Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.”

John Updike

“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain.

Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?”

Gibran Khalil Gibran

On the cover: “Pot” by the Dutch artist Mieke Verhaar (www.miekeverhaar.tk), inspired by her stay at Tell Sabi Abyad.

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