The rotating platform on which clay is centered and thrown into round vessels. One of the earliest machines to exploit rotary motion, it turned pottery from a coiled handcraft into a fast, precise trade, and centering clay on a spinning wheel head remains the defining skill every new potter must win. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Introduced When (Circa)In use in Mesopotamia by the fourth millennium BC, with slower turntables earlier 1 OriginThe oldest known potter's wheel, from the Cucuteni-Trypillia culture in western Ukraine, has been dated to the middle of the 5th millennium BC. 1 Introduced era (class) Connections
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A potter's wheel in western Ukraine, from the Cucuteni-Trypillia culture, has been dated to the middle of the 5th millennium BC, and is the oldest ever found
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A potter's wheel may occasionally be referred to as a 'potter's lathe'
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a device with a horizontal rotating disc, on which clay is shaped into pots, bowls, etc, by hand
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clay is shaped into pots, bowls, etc, by hand
In Group: Potters Wheels and Throwing Aids, Definition entry
a device with a rotating horizontal disk upon which clay is molded by a potter.
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