About Pottery Analyses

This platform presents the results of an interdisciplinary project entitled Sources and Distribution of Selected High and Late Medieval Pottery Products (GA 17-13967S), exploring the production centers of selected pottery items in the high and late Middle Ages by means of analytical methods, as well as a closer definition of mutual contacts in the production sphere. The key commodities are stove tiles with which, due to their relief decoration, macroscopically identical specimens have been identified at different locations. The amount of information about the functioning of medieval pottery workshops allows us to presume that the sources of material of the examined specimens were identical to those of small sculptures, aquamaniles, and floor tiles. The assessment of the scientific analyses of the samples of these pottery products with a more profound aesthetic effect, executed within the project, will provide the groundwork for the definition of material groups, with the possible locating of the deposits of clay used in their manufacture and, together with conclusions derived from use-wear analyses, indicate the directions of migration, the evidence of which was sought in archival sources. The results were presented in an electronic publication related to this website. The database was originally presented in 2017 in DSpace, in 2025 it was migrated to the Digitalia MUNI ARTS infrastructure. It continues to be expanded by the extended authorial team.

About the authors

Principal investigator

Irena Loskotová, Department of Archaeology and Museology, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, irena@phil.muni.cz (https://www.phil.muni.cz/en/about-us/faculty-staff/160571-irena-loskotova) – stove tiles

Co-applicants

Markéta Tymonová, Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava, Silesian University, marketa.tymonova@fpf.slu.cz (http://www.slu.cz/fpf/cz/ustav-archeologie/lide/marketa-tymonova) – stove tiles

Dana Menoušková, The Slovak Museum in Uherské Hradiště, dana.menouskova@slovackemuzeum.cz – stove tiles

Martin Hložek, Department of Archaeology and Museology, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, mhlozek@seznam.cz (https://www.phil.muni.cz/en/about-us/faculty-staff/10001-martin-hlozek) – scientific analyses

Karel Slavíček, Department of Geological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University (https://is.muni.cz/osoba/261189) – scientific analyses

Zdeňka Měchurová, Moravian museum, zmechurova@mzm.cz – small ceramic sculptures

Lenka Sedláčková, Archaia Brno r. i.,lsedlackova@archaiabrno.cz – aquamaniles

Petr Holub, The National Heritage Institute, Regional Office in Brno, holub.petr@npu.cz – floor tiles

Vojtěch Nosek, Department of Archaeology and Museology, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, 330862@mail.muni.cz (https://www.phil.muni.cz/en/about-us/faculty-staff/330862-vojtech-nosek) – 3D documentation

Web admin, tech support

Vlastimil Krejčíř, Institute of Computer Science, Masaryk University https://www.muni.cz/en/people/4189-vlastimil-krejcir

Illyria Brejchová, Digitalia MUNI ARTS, Masaryk University https://www.muni.cz/en/people/525117-illyria-brejchova - data curator and programmer