Different steps of the pottery processing have been going on in the restorer’s laboratory and also in the finds processing room from the basement. The lately enormous amount of pottery (9 crates) is washed and dried in the upper lab and this is the location of the primary recording of the ceramic as well.
The pottery recording sheet contains different ware types and functional categories and helps us to have an overview about all the ceramic material. In the finds processing room students learn how to draw the typical pottery shards (rim, base, decorated body fragments, etc.) and record them in the pottery database. Many interesting fragments (turibula, paterae, miniature vessels, etc.) are already recorded in the database and some of them are carefully cleaned from the sintering crust as well. A different part of the pottery recording is the identification of ceramic fabrics and the definition of the local and imported wares, from which important information can be extracted related to the economic connections of Apulum and refers also to the consumption habits of the local population.
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