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Science - Archaeology / medieval pottery | | French term or phrase: vase caréné | | A vase (or bowl) that tapers from some point above, below, or near the middle to its base, which is smaller, like the keel (carène) of a ship. See picture on www.archeologie-et-patrimoine.com/ArtBlog/ArcheoBlog/Cultur... (possibly PDF - the ending was cut off the page) TIA! GL |
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| | carinated vase | Explanation:
See the email I sent to you for more explanation. Now that I read your post here, I see that you already understand that the term refers to the keel of a boat. In archaeology, in English, we use the term "carinated" or "carination". Or, depending on the context, you could say, as someone else proposed, "with a carinated body". |
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Magen O'Farrell
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26 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +1 carinated vase
Explanation:
See the email I sent to you for more explanation. Now that I read your post here, I see that you already understand that the term refers to the keel of a boat. In archaeology, in English, we use the term "carinated" or "carination". Or, depending on the context, you could say, as someone else proposed, "with a carinated body".
| Magen O'Farrell
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2 hrs confidence: carinated ("keel-like" or "ridged") vase or bowl
Explanation:
Magen's answer is certainly correct, but I've never seen this term before --however, it's not really my field and it may well be quite common and well known among archeologists and certainly among pottery specialists.
So, if your audience is not familiar with this rather technical term, you might want to add a bit of explanation, e.g., "keel-like" or "ridged" (in quotes).
Even this, however, will be difficult for the non-specialist to envision.
Your link
http://www.archeologie-et-patrimoine.com/ArtBlog/ArcheoBlog/...
doesn't work for me so, in fact, I have no real idea what the artifact looks like --perhaps "bowl" might be more appropriate than "vase."
Here's the Oxford English Dictionary on
CARINATE, verb
Hence carinated ppl. a., keeled, ridged; also of pottery (cf. CARINATION); = CARINATE a.; carinating ppl. a., ? forming a carina; carination, a keel-like formation, ridging resembling a keel.
1698 J. PETIVER in Phil. Trans. XX. 324 The Stalk is round and carinated.
1880 WATSON in Jrnl. Linn. Soc. XV. No. 84. 228 Two threads whose prominence slightly carinates each whorl.
1788 GRAY in Phil. Trans. LXXIX. 28 Carinated scales..a character of venomous Serpents.
1846 DANA Zooph. 384 The twelve large carinating lamellæ.
1880 WATSON in Jrnl. Linn. Soc. XV. No. 82. 117 Each whorl..projects in an angular carination.
1881 ibid. No. 87. 411 The line of the tubercles forms a rather acute carination.
1936 Oxoniensia I. 49 This contained pottery of the first century, including a carinated bowl with cordons.
Ibid. 60 Bowl with heavy moulded rim and slight carination at base.
1937 Proc. Prehist. Soc. III. 338 The commonest grave-vessel is a plain carinated bowl with pronounced shoulder. 1963 H. N. SAVORY in Foster & Alcock Culture & Environment iii. 35 The fine, carinated bowls of Clegyr-boia.
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Presumably Patrick's link gives us some vague idea of what your artifact might look like (?).
| Christopher Crockett
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