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The ‘grave of the Court Pit’, A rediscovered Bronze Age tomb from Carchemish

2014

This paper examines the British Museum unpublished records related to an Early Bronze (EB) Age pithos burial uncovered a century ago in the Inner Town at Carchemish. The grave, cursorily cited and variously dated (Chalcolithic, EB or even LBA) in the final reports, was described in some detail by Hogarth and Thompson; a precise dating is, however, possible today thanks to the information of paramount importance given by T. E. Lawrence who identified and took a picture of the associated finds, which was recently rediscovered in the Carchemish Archives. The pithos can be now ascribed to the third quarter of the third millennium BC and helps to confirm the recent theory according to which the …

ArcheologyHistoryHistoryVisual Arts and Performing ArtsMesopotamiaReligious studiesChalcolithicengineering.materialAncient historyArchaeologyCarchemish British Museum excavations T. E. Lawrence D. G. Hogarth EBA burial customs Euphrates Banded Ware Syrian BottlesBronze AgeengineeringBronzeSettore L-OR/05 - Archeologia E Storia Dell'Arte Del Vicino Oriente AnticoQuarter (Canadian coin)
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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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