Cataloguistics: The Experience at Tell Afis, Syria

The aim of this paper is no to describe a new cataloguing method but to present a reasoned elaboration of research instruments that are only partly formulated. In fact the draft for the computerized card is the synthetic present result of an internal discussion on research methodologies for the study of pottery among the members of the field team at Afis. This discussion has concerned very complex issues, such as those related to the approach to cataloguing, the definition of the concepts of class and type, as well as more general interpretative problems