Stone vessels

Japanese: 石製容器 - せきせいようき

In archaeology, it refers to stone vessels made by professional stoneworkers, especially in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Greece. In northern Mesopotamia, the custom of processing soft white stones such as marble and calcite to make vessels had existed since the Neolithic period, but by the time the Sumerian civilization was formed, artisans who specialized in making stone vessels appeared in cities. While vessels from the Halaf culture had no carvings on the outside, vessels decorated with reliefs and inlays appeared in the Uruk and Jamdat Nasr cultures, and from the Early Dynastic Period onwards, dark green lithite native to Baluchistan was chosen as the material and was processed into magnificent crafts.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

考古学ではとくにメソポタミア，エジプト，ギリシアで，専業の石細工師が製作した石の器をいう。北メソポタミアでは大理石，方解石などの白色系の軟らかい石を加工して容器をつくる風習は新石器時代からあったが，シュメール文明が形成されるころには，石製容器の製作を専業とする工人が都市のなかに現れる。ハラフ文化のものには外面に彫刻文がないが，ウルク文化，ジャムダット･ナスル文化には浮彫や象嵌で器面を飾るものが出現し，初期王朝期以降はとくにバルーチスターンが原産の濃緑色の凍石が素材に選ばれ，みごとな工芸品に加工された。

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