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A Painted Pottery of the Second Millennium from Southern Turkey and Northern Syria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2014

M. V. Seton Williams
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So many different types of painted pottery have been found in the Near East and left unrelated that it seems important to recognise the constituent members of a single family where possible. Here an attempt will be made to identify a distinctive group of pottery which was made more or less contemporaneously in various parts of Turkey and North Syria between c. 1900 and c. 1550 B.C. This fabric is sufficiently similar in form, design and colour to enable us to say that it was technically interrelated, and that it was the manifestation of a fashion and mode of pottery comparatively restricted both in time and space. The makers therefore must have been in the grip of a dominant fashion; their wares were familiar, easily marketable, and doubtless often manufactured at the centres at which they have been found. But their common characteristics must lead to the conclusion, in keeping with the historical evidence, that the pot designers of Cilicia, the ‘Amq and North Syria were in fairly close touch with one another. There is no doubt that the pottery with which we are dealing has close connections with the Ḫabur ware, particuarly the large vessels, but in Cilicia, and to a lesser extent in the ‘Amq, there was a greater variety of forms and finer workmanship than the Ḫabur ware usually portrays.

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IRAQ , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , Spring 1953 , pp. 56 - 68
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Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 1953

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