A provenance study of Mycenaean pottery from Northern Israel

Provenance Determination of Mycenaean Iiic Vessels From the 1934–1939 Excavations at Tarsus‐gözlükule by Neutron Activation Analysis

“…The assignment of this pattern not only to the workshop at Berbati near Mycenae, where wasters with pattern MYBE have been found (Mommsen et al . 2002, 621), but also to the larger area of the northeastern Peloponnese, has been discussed in Zuckerman et al . (2010).…”

“…Prior to the LHIIIC phase, in LHIIIA2-IIIB, many vessels with this pattern were exported to the Eastern Mediterranean (e.g., Badre et al 2005). The assignment of this pattern not only to the workshop at Berbati near Mycenae, where wasters with pattern MYBE have been found (Mommsen et al 2002, 621), but also to the larger area of the northeastern Peloponnese, has been discussed in Zuckerman et al (2010). Tars 6 belongs to Group B, which suggests that it is an import from somewhere in northern Ionia (Teos?)…”

Production Sites of Early Iron Age Greek Bronze Tripod Cauldrons: First Evidence from Neutron Activation Analysis of Casting Ceramics

“…Since the technical material from Olympia definitely stems from casting workshops at this site, and since several samples of this material match two groups of the molds, these groups and with them also the other groups with not very different concentrations (exceptions are M2 and M6) can be assigned to the area of Olympia. The known pottery groups ACb2 (Zuckerman et al., ) and OlyA (Mommsen, Bentz, & Boix, ) assigned to a production area somewhere in Elis/Achaia do not statistically match any of the mold groups assigned to Olympia (M1, M3, M4, M5), but are generally close in concentration space with the largest deviation of higher Sc values.…”

Transport Stirrup Jars from the Southern Levant: New Light on Commodity Exchange in the Eastern Mediterranean

“…As noted in the regional survey of its distribution outside the Aegean, this type of transport vessel is encountered in varying quantities in the Levant, Cyprus, Egypt, and Italy during the 14th and 13th centuries B.C.E., the heyday of eastern Mediterranean Late Bronze Age trade. By contrast, standard Aegean and Cypriote tablewares traded for their own sake rather than for their contents are frequently found at noncoastal sites (see, e.g., Zuckerman et al 2010 [and references therein] for the southern Levant, Mühlenbruch 2009 for the northern Levant). Most of those examples manufactured in medium-coarse to coarse fabrics can be attributed to Cretan centers of production.…”