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Early Syrian Bottles

2014

Near Eastern archaeologists are accustomed today to labelling as “Syrian bottles” various kinds of oil/perfume fasks that enjoyed a wide popularity in Syria during the 3rd millennium. Owing to the volatile nature of their contents and the lack of archeometric analysis it has not been possible so far to ascertain whether these vessels were scent or unguent vases. Whatever the case, since they have been found far afeld from the core region of production it is clear that they were a luxury item of long-distance trade and are thus today – if possible misattributions are discarded – a valuable indicator of exchange networks and for establishing synchronisms among distant areas of the ancient Nea…

Syrian bottles Early Bronze Age pottery Middle Euphrates SyriaSettore L-OR/05 - Archeologia E Storia Dell'Arte Del Vicino Oriente Antico
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Plain and luxury wares of the third millennium BC in the Carchemish region: two case-studies from Tell Shiyukh Tahtani

2007

In the last decades the large number of salvage excavations undertaken in north Syria and southeastern Anatolia has generated much interest regarding the role that the culture of the Big Bend of the Euphrates River played during the 3rd millennium BC. the aim of the present paper is to examine some particular pottery assemblages of the second half of the 3rd millennium which can be relevant for a discussion about a putative Carchemish region in the Early Bronze Age.

Tell Shiyukh Tahtaniburial customSettore L-OR/05 - Archeologia E Storia Dell'Arte Del Vicino Oriente AnticoNORTH SYRIA early Bronze Age PotteryMiddle Euphrate
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