Figure 10

Melted pottery. (a) Photos of a 7-cm-wide potsherd from a broken storage jar from NE of the palace, showing unmelted inner surface and (b) the darker melted outer surface of the potsherd. The upper-left edge in panel ‘b’ is the outward-curved lip of a storage jar. (c) Potsherd of a 6-cm-wide storage jar from the lower tall, displaying an unaltered inner surface, and (d) the highly vesicular outer surface. (e)–(f) Photos of both edges of the sliced section of sherd in panels ‘a’ and ‘b’ above. (g)–(h) SEM images of the highly vesicular sliced surface of sherd in panels ‘a’ and ‘b’.