{"id":21,"date":"2026-10-10T11:46:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T11:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-museum\/how-we-date-a-pot-without-a-label\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T15:05:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T15:05:34","slug":"how-we-date-a-pot-without-a-label","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-museum\/how-we-date-a-pot-without-a-label\/","title":{"rendered":"How we date a pot without a label"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most pots in the stores came to us without any paperwork at all (sample story).<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Curators start with the clay: valley clay fires a warm orange, river clay a grey brown. The shape narrows things down, and the soil around a find, if anyone recorded it, can place it within a century.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Come to the curator&#8217;s tour on Thursday to see how three of the jars in Rivers of Clay were dated.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clay, shape and the soil it was found in all tell a curator something (sample story).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-stores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/60"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}