Vienna System
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The Vienna System refers to a widely-accepted and influential schema of visual classification for Ancient Egyptian Pottery, employed increasingly in Egyptian archaeology and that of surrounding regions in which Egyptian ceramic objects have been excavated.
The Vienna System was first drafted in the city of the same name, in meetings held in the year 1980 between Dorothea Arnold, Manfred Bietak, Janine Bourriau, Helen and Jean Jaquet and Hans Åke-Nördstrom, now considered the prime creators of the system.
- the Nile Silt Fabrics (originally simply designated "Nile Fabrics")
- the Marl Fabrics
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Bibliography
- Nordtsröm, Hans-Åke and Bourriau, Janine [1993], "4. The Vienna System", Chapter 4 in Ceramic Technology: Clays and Fabrics, Fascicle 2 in Arnold, Dorothea and Bourriau, Janine (eds) [1993], An Introduction to Ancient Egyptian Pottery, [Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Abteilung Kairo Sondershrift 17], Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern, 1993, pp.168-182, pls. I-VII. ISBN 3805306237
