The sign value of the first potter's wheels used in the southern Levant (second half of the 5th mill. BC) is explored through the production modalities of V-shaped bowls, the main category of vessels shaped on the wheel at that time. To this end, a morphometric approach is applied to V-shaped bowls from four sites through numerical methods available in a Pottery 3-D software used to extract shape parameters. The results obtained highlight a high variability in absolute dimensions and a low variability in profiles. This apparent contradiction is discussed in light of the variability of bowls made under three experimental conditions. The baseline data obtained suggests that the roughouts of the archaeological bowls were made by several hands, while the shaping of the bowls on the wheel was done by a single hand. This disjunction in the production process supports the hypothesis that the earliest rotary instruments found in the southern Levant were loaded with symbolic meaning that was then transferred to the vessels when they were shaped on the wheel.

通过当时在轮上成型的主要器物V形碗的生产方式，探索了在黎凡特南部（公元前5磨坊后半部）使用的第一个陶轮的符号值。为此，通过用于提取形状参数的 Pottery 3-D 软件中可用的数值方法，将形态测量方法应用于四个地点的 V 形碗。获得的结果突出了绝对尺寸的高可变性和轮廓的低可变性。鉴于在三种实验条件下制作的碗的可变性，讨论了这种明显的矛盾。获得的基线数据表明，考古碗的粗略是由几只手制作的，而轮盘上的碗的成型是由一只手完成的。