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.

This work examines two pottery alabastra recovered from the necropolis of Tenedos. These two alabastra closely recall Mycenaean forerunners in terms of typology, while the decorations applied on their surfaces are alike to those of G 2-3 Ware defining the seventeenth century in the region. Because these two alabastra lack contextual information at Tenedos, they could be placed into the second half of the seventh / beginning of the sixth century BC based on comparisons with those found at the site of Hephaestia on Lemnos. These alabastra from Tenedos 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 for mortuary purposes alongside the imported Corinthian wares of all types. These two alabastra examples from Tenedos in this context could be viewed as archaeological manifestation of the continuation of old trends in North-east Aegean Archaic pottery on Tenedos as observed on nearby island of Lemnos.