Wackelboden

English translation: round bottom

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German term or phrase:Wackelboden
English translation:round bottom
Entered by: Jaime Hyland

07:40 Jun 18, 2014
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Art/Literary - Archaeology
German term or phrase: Wackelboden
"fast vollständig erhaltener Kugeltopf mit Wackelboden sowie handaufgebaute Kugeltopfware und Randscherben mit kurzen, steilen Rändern" labelling a round medieval pot in a PowerPoint presentation.

Kugeltopf seems refers to the fact that the pot is basically spherical in form. So does "Wackelboden" merely indicate that the bottom of the piece is also round, and therefore not self-supporting?

TIA

Jaime
Jaime Hyland
Local time: 07:08
round(-)bottom
Explanation:
Either round bottom, round-bottom or round-bottomed. I think you could probably get away with 'with rounded bottom' as well, but with a 'rounded jar' already that'll be a bit repetitive.

The Wikipedia translator for Pingsdorf Ware used 'lensoid', but that seems to be rather for mining and things.

Not 100% sure, though.
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Kirsten Bodart
United Kingdom
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Thanks very much Kirsten and everyone else who contributed!
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Summary of answers provided
4convex-bottomed
Helen Shiner
3round(-)bottom
Kirsten Bodart
2lenticular base
Wendy Streitparth
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Wendy Streitparth

  

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round(-)bottom


Explanation:
Either round bottom, round-bottom or round-bottomed. I think you could probably get away with 'with rounded bottom' as well, but with a 'rounded jar' already that'll be a bit repetitive.

The Wikipedia translator for Pingsdorf Ware used 'lensoid', but that seems to be rather for mining and things.

Not 100% sure, though.

Kirsten Bodart
United Kingdom
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Thanks very much Kirsten and everyone else who contributed!
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lenticular base


Explanation:
Classic small RBA Badorf vessel with a lenticular base.
http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/1867/1/DX181290.pdf

Pots with a lenticular base were placed on a metal or earthenware tripod (pyrostates) in the fireplace.
http://www.qantara-med.org/qantara4/public/show_document.php...

or lentoid / convex base

Wendy Streitparth
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convex-bottomed


Explanation:
Although culinary ware was relatively inexpensive, it was important to take care of it. According to Theodora Stoudios, if a monk broke an earthenware pot during a meal, their negligence condemned them to three hundred penitential prostrations or to standing at the entry of the refectory, holding the fragments of the pot in their hands. Two methods of cooking fresh meat and poultry coexisted in Byzantium: sophisticated methods, such as roasting and grilling, and boiling and stewing. When boiling food, the earthenware pots (tsoukka, tsoukalion, and chytra) were sealed with a cover (épikythrion) or hermetically sealed with paste. Eustathius of Thessalonica mentions a recipe, in which boiled chicken simmers with a sauce in a covered pot. Fish and vegetables were also cooked in pots to make stock. The tsoukalia comprised cooking pots, without or with only one handle and a flat bottom, and convex-bottomed pots with two handles and globular bodies, which were bigger.
http://www.qantara-med.org/qantara4/public/show_document.php...

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=4iew_THp8foC&pg=PA48&lpg=...

http://www.kaogu.net.cn/html/en/Publication/New_books/2013/1...

Helen Shiner
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Reference

Reference information:
Töpfe mit sol-
chen Wackel- oder Linsenböden standen nicht von
allein, sondern mussten in weiches Material wie
Sand oder Asche und Glut gestellt werden.

http://www.so.ch/fileadmin/internet/bjd/bdaaa/pdf/ADSO10/Gru...

Wendy Streitparth
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