This study discusses two alabastra recovered from the necropolis of Tenedos, located in the moder... more This study discusses two alabastra recovered from the necropolis of Tenedos, located in the modern Bozcaada district of Çanakkale province. While these two alabastra are morphologically reminiscent of Mycenaean predecessors, the decorations practiced on their surfaces are similar to those of G 2-3 Ware defining the 7th century BC in the region. These alabastra from Tenedos, whose grave contexts are not useful for absolute dating, could be dated into the second half of the 7th to the beginning of the 6th century BC, thanks to comparisons with those found at the necropolis of Hephaestia on Lemnos. The alabastra indicate that “hybrid” pottery containing both older forms going back to the Mycenaean times and new decoration styles representing regional G 2-3 Ware were used in burial customs alongside the imported Corinthian wares in the 7th and 6th centuries BC. As a result, these two alabastra from Tenedos might be viewed as archaeological manifestations of the continuation of old trends in North Aegean Archaic pottery on Tenedos as observed on the nearby island of Lemnos.
The first millennium BC Gray Ware assemblage of Madytus share a series of similarities with the n... more The first millennium BC Gray Ware assemblage of Madytus share a series of similarities with the north-west Anatolian gray wares that was shaped under the influences of pottery and metal vessels of various cultures, in addition to the gray ware traditions of the Middle and Late Bronze Age in the region. This work in this sense aims to raise several questions on the gray wares from Madytus that recall the Phrygian pottery and metal vessels in relation to chronology and interactions. The pottery examined in this study implies that the relation between the gray wares from Madytus and the Phrygian vessels goes back to as early as the nineth / eighth centuries BC and lasted until the sixth century BC. The nature of relationships between Madytus and Phrygia in terms of gray wares contains problem involving Balkan and Aeolian newcomers from the north, the infiltration of the Phrygian pottery on the shapes and decorations of the pottery of the north-east Aegean interaction zone, and the Ionian colonization activities in the Hellespontus. The gray wares of Madytus with Phrygian influences indicates that the gray ware tradition representing the north-east Aegean interaction zone was not something peculiar to the coastal regions and the islands, since the Phrygian elements detected in the pottery assemblages show that this was extended to the inland regions.
Beate Böhlendorf-Arslan (Hrsg.), Veränderungen von Stadtbild und urbaner Lebenswelt in spätantiker und frühbyzantinischer Zeit. Assos im Spiegel städtischer Zentren Westkleinasiens. Byzanz zwischen Orient und Okzident 23 (Mainz 2021), 2021
In the 2012 and 2013 excavation seasons at Assos, the western side of the Hellenistic era North S... more In the 2012 and 2013 excavation seasons at Assos, the western side of the Hellenistic era North Stoa was excavated to understand the chronology of the building from the stratigraphy of the ll. Finds dating to the Late Roman period (mid late 2nd to mid-late 4th century) were found on a later oor of the stoa. These Late Roman nds were covered by a layer of soil 0.45-0.50m deep which concealed Early Byzantine pottery dated from the mid-late 4th to the 6th/7th century. This Early Byzantine layer was covered by rubble in the 6th century which concealed a variety of discoveries from the Classical period to the 6th-7th century. The Early Byzantine layer, however, revealed less complex finds. Some 54.47 % of the wares consisted of red slip table ware, while the rest consisted of coarse wares, storage / transport vessels, oil lamps and earlier unguentaria and black glazed wares. Phocaean Red Slip Ware from the period between the second half of the 4th and the 6th /7th century is the most common table ware (90.56%). African Red Slip Ware imported from North African workshops between the 4th and the 6th centuries is another red slip table ware and constitutes 4.61 % of the total. Light Colored Ware, for which the Cnidian region is suggested as the production center, is a less common red slip table ware with 0.86%. Overall, 10.85% of the pottery consists of cooking ware including cooking pots and casseroles. Similar examples known as the Aegean type are found in the 5th century context of Corinth and Messene. Other forms found were the lids of cooking ware (2.54%) and kitchen ware (5.92%). Bowls or basins with an averted rim, which have incised decoration depicting waves, parallel lines or notches, are common amongst the kitchen ware. Similar kitchen ware from Ephesus, Miletus and Parion is dated to the 5th-6th century. 10.04% of the pottery is storage/trans- port vessels. The most common LRA 1 amphora has a nearly cylindrical neck ending, a concave rim, and a thick handle. The LRA 1 type of amphorae is known to have originated in Cilicia and Cyprus.
Archaeological excavations in Tenedos, west of Troad, are limited to necropolis area in the east ... more Archaeological excavations in Tenedos, west of Troad, are limited to necropolis area in the east of the modern city. In this area, significant archaeological finds were obtained about the ancient history of Tenedos during the rescue excavations in 1959 and later. The graves in the Tenedos necropolis are dated to between the Bronze Age and the Hellenistic Age. In this article, two examples of grey wares intensively uncovered in the graves are considered. The most important difference of these grey wares composed of amphoriscos and oinochoe is the appliqué snake figures on them. Here, we focus on the iconographic interpretations and the dating of snakes on the vessels.
This study discusses two alabastra recovered from the necropolis of Tenedos, located in the moder... more This study discusses two alabastra recovered from the necropolis of Tenedos, located in the modern Bozcaada district of Çanakkale province. While these two alabastra are morphologically reminiscent of Mycenaean predecessors, the decorations practiced on their surfaces are similar to those of G 2-3 Ware defining the 7th century BC in the region. These alabastra from Tenedos, whose grave contexts are not useful for absolute dating, could be dated into the second half of the 7th to the beginning of the 6th century BC, thanks to comparisons with those found at the necropolis of Hephaestia on Lemnos. The alabastra indicate that “hybrid” pottery containing both older forms going back to the Mycenaean times and new decoration styles representing regional G 2-3 Ware were used in burial customs alongside the imported Corinthian wares in the 7th and 6th centuries BC. As a result, these two alabastra from Tenedos might be viewed as archaeological manifestations of the continuation of old trends in North Aegean Archaic pottery on Tenedos as observed on the nearby island of Lemnos.
The first millennium BC Gray Ware assemblage of Madytus share a series of similarities with the n... more The first millennium BC Gray Ware assemblage of Madytus share a series of similarities with the north-west Anatolian gray wares that was shaped under the influences of pottery and metal vessels of various cultures, in addition to the gray ware traditions of the Middle and Late Bronze Age in the region. This work in this sense aims to raise several questions on the gray wares from Madytus that recall the Phrygian pottery and metal vessels in relation to chronology and interactions. The pottery examined in this study implies that the relation between the gray wares from Madytus and the Phrygian vessels goes back to as early as the nineth / eighth centuries BC and lasted until the sixth century BC. The nature of relationships between Madytus and Phrygia in terms of gray wares contains problem involving Balkan and Aeolian newcomers from the north, the infiltration of the Phrygian pottery on the shapes and decorations of the pottery of the north-east Aegean interaction zone, and the Ionian colonization activities in the Hellespontus. The gray wares of Madytus with Phrygian influences indicates that the gray ware tradition representing the north-east Aegean interaction zone was not something peculiar to the coastal regions and the islands, since the Phrygian elements detected in the pottery assemblages show that this was extended to the inland regions.
Beate Böhlendorf-Arslan (Hrsg.), Veränderungen von Stadtbild und urbaner Lebenswelt in spätantiker und frühbyzantinischer Zeit. Assos im Spiegel städtischer Zentren Westkleinasiens. Byzanz zwischen Orient und Okzident 23 (Mainz 2021), 2021
In the 2012 and 2013 excavation seasons at Assos, the western side of the Hellenistic era North S... more In the 2012 and 2013 excavation seasons at Assos, the western side of the Hellenistic era North Stoa was excavated to understand the chronology of the building from the stratigraphy of the ll. Finds dating to the Late Roman period (mid late 2nd to mid-late 4th century) were found on a later oor of the stoa. These Late Roman nds were covered by a layer of soil 0.45-0.50m deep which concealed Early Byzantine pottery dated from the mid-late 4th to the 6th/7th century. This Early Byzantine layer was covered by rubble in the 6th century which concealed a variety of discoveries from the Classical period to the 6th-7th century. The Early Byzantine layer, however, revealed less complex finds. Some 54.47 % of the wares consisted of red slip table ware, while the rest consisted of coarse wares, storage / transport vessels, oil lamps and earlier unguentaria and black glazed wares. Phocaean Red Slip Ware from the period between the second half of the 4th and the 6th /7th century is the most common table ware (90.56%). African Red Slip Ware imported from North African workshops between the 4th and the 6th centuries is another red slip table ware and constitutes 4.61 % of the total. Light Colored Ware, for which the Cnidian region is suggested as the production center, is a less common red slip table ware with 0.86%. Overall, 10.85% of the pottery consists of cooking ware including cooking pots and casseroles. Similar examples known as the Aegean type are found in the 5th century context of Corinth and Messene. Other forms found were the lids of cooking ware (2.54%) and kitchen ware (5.92%). Bowls or basins with an averted rim, which have incised decoration depicting waves, parallel lines or notches, are common amongst the kitchen ware. Similar kitchen ware from Ephesus, Miletus and Parion is dated to the 5th-6th century. 10.04% of the pottery is storage/trans- port vessels. The most common LRA 1 amphora has a nearly cylindrical neck ending, a concave rim, and a thick handle. The LRA 1 type of amphorae is known to have originated in Cilicia and Cyprus.
Archaeological excavations in Tenedos, west of Troad, are limited to necropolis area in the east ... more Archaeological excavations in Tenedos, west of Troad, are limited to necropolis area in the east of the modern city. In this area, significant archaeological finds were obtained about the ancient history of Tenedos during the rescue excavations in 1959 and later. The graves in the Tenedos necropolis are dated to between the Bronze Age and the Hellenistic Age. In this article, two examples of grey wares intensively uncovered in the graves are considered. The most important difference of these grey wares composed of amphoriscos and oinochoe is the appliqué snake figures on them. Here, we focus on the iconographic interpretations and the dating of snakes on the vessels.
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Phocaean Red Slip Ware from the period between the second half of the 4th and the 6th /7th century is the most common table ware (90.56%). African Red Slip Ware imported from North African workshops between the 4th and the 6th centuries is another red slip table ware and constitutes 4.61 % of the total. Light Colored Ware, for which the Cnidian region is suggested as the production center, is a less common red slip table ware with 0.86%. Overall, 10.85% of the pottery consists of cooking ware including cooking pots and casseroles. Similar examples known as the Aegean type are found in the 5th century context of Corinth and Messene. Other forms found were the lids of cooking ware (2.54%) and kitchen ware (5.92%). Bowls or basins with an averted rim, which have incised decoration depicting waves, parallel lines or notches, are common amongst the kitchen ware. Similar kitchen ware from Ephesus, Miletus and Parion is dated to the 5th-6th century. 10.04% of the pottery is storage/trans- port vessels. The most common LRA 1 amphora has a nearly cylindrical neck ending, a concave rim, and a thick handle. The LRA 1 type of amphorae is known to have originated in Cilicia and Cyprus.
Phocaean Red Slip Ware from the period between the second half of the 4th and the 6th /7th century is the most common table ware (90.56%). African Red Slip Ware imported from North African workshops between the 4th and the 6th centuries is another red slip table ware and constitutes 4.61 % of the total. Light Colored Ware, for which the Cnidian region is suggested as the production center, is a less common red slip table ware with 0.86%. Overall, 10.85% of the pottery consists of cooking ware including cooking pots and casseroles. Similar examples known as the Aegean type are found in the 5th century context of Corinth and Messene. Other forms found were the lids of cooking ware (2.54%) and kitchen ware (5.92%). Bowls or basins with an averted rim, which have incised decoration depicting waves, parallel lines or notches, are common amongst the kitchen ware. Similar kitchen ware from Ephesus, Miletus and Parion is dated to the 5th-6th century. 10.04% of the pottery is storage/trans- port vessels. The most common LRA 1 amphora has a nearly cylindrical neck ending, a concave rim, and a thick handle. The LRA 1 type of amphorae is known to have originated in Cilicia and Cyprus.