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These potmarks can be geometric or of animals, and are always incised after the pot is fired, so they appear to be owner's marks rather than maker's marks.
Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Nubian Cemetery Week 5, Part 1 2002
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Click here to see the incised potmarks on the center jar.
Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Nubian Cemetery Week 5, Part 1 2002
GHibbs commented on the word potmarks
This is the plural of the noun potmark. There may be potmarks on buildings after small arms fire.
There were pockmarks on the skin of people who survived smallpox.
The word potmarks is also third person singular of the verb potmark. This would refer to the process of potmarking which could be by shooting at a wall and leaving dents.
June 22, 2012