Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre

Karageorghis, Vassos

doi:10.3406/bch.1974.4841

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“…A clay from Kellaki and normalized data (cf., Glascock 1992) for two clays from Kornos analysed at BNL (Bieber 1977) also both have an affinity with the WS group (Gomez et al 1995;Gomez and Docherty 2000). Two clays from south-central Cyprus exceed the 10% p-value cut-off for membership in the LR1C group, as do two amphora wasters from a kiln site in Paphos (Karageorghis 1989) and Chalcolithic pottery from south-central Cyprus, which is presumed to have been manufactured in the local area (Rautman et al 1993). A clay used by modern potters from the village of Varosia exceeds the 5% p-value cut-off for membership in the C roof tile group (Fig.…”

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The Source Provenance of Bronze Age and Roman pottery from Cyprus

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Archaeological interpretations of ancient economies have been strengthened by chemical analyses of ceramics, which provide the clearest evidence for economic activity, and comprise both the objects of exchange and its means. Pottery is often manufactured from local materials, but its compositional diversity typically prevents significant patterns of resource utilization from being identified. Centrally located and positioned on traditional shipping routes, Cyprus maintained ties with and supplied a variety of distinctive ceramic products to the major commercial centres in the eastern Mediterranean throughout Antiquity. We analysed two Cypriot fine wares and a variety of utilitarian pottery, as well as samples of extant Cypriot clays to determine source provenance. These chemical analyses provide an objective indication of the origins of ancient (Bronze Age and Roman) ceramics manufactured on Cyprus. The distribution of the probable clay sources and the links between pottery style and the material environment also afford a perspective on the spatial organization of large-scale pottery production on the island. Compositional analysis provides the means to assemble geographies of pottery production and to unravel the interregional system of exchange that operated in Antiquity, but the ability to accomplish these tasks is predicated on systematic analyses of ceramic products and raw materials that are found far beyond the bounds of individual archaeological sites.

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“…This kind of regularity is not just relative to the application of text on the clay surface, but also to diameter size of the objects and the smoothness of the clay surface. Within the Sanctuary of the Ingot God at Enkomi, another concentration of boules was found in situ , on which several hands are detectable (Karageorghis ). Notwithstanding the regular features and the patterns of homogeneity even in concentrated spots of activity, the level of competence of the inscriber varies greatly.…”

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Writing Away: Mobility and Versatility of Scribes at the End of the Bronze Age

Ferrara

2016

Oxford J Archaeology

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Summary This paper considers the roles played by scribes on Cyprus towards the end of the Late Bronze Age and the organization of the scribal community and its activity, drawing a parallel with the class of scribes at Ugarit‐Ras Shamra in Syria. A close analysis of the contexts of the undeciphered Cypro‐Minoan inscriptions found at Ugarit, the Cypro‐Minoan inscription from Cyprus, and the cuneiform Akkadian tablets from Alashiya found at Ugarit and at Tell el Amarna in Egypt guides the identification of the agents responsible for their creation and their mobility from site to site. It furthermore advances understanding of the relationship of mutual exchange of epigraphic services across cultures and languages, during centuries of lively interaction and multilingual communication at the crossroads of different societies.

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“…557;Stieglitz, 1975). Of a different type is the model in the private collection of Nicolaides from Limassol, purchased at the beginning of the 1970s and first published in 1976 (Karageorghis, 1976). It was suggested to date to the Late Bronze Age (Westenberg, 1983: 16, no.…”

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Clay models of Phoenician vessels in the Hecht Museum at the University of Haifa, Israel

Raban

Kahanov

2003

International Journal of Nautical Archaeology

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Two clay models of boats have recently been added to the collection of the Hecht Museum at the University of Haifa. The models are of rowing boats, with three and five pairs of oarsmen respectively. They probably represent harbour service boats or ceremonial sailings near a harbour. Their analysis is based on similar artefacts found underwater along the same coast and related to the same Phoenician culture. The origin of the artefacts is apparently from close to Tyre, and they can be dated to the 5th century BCE. They may have been from a templefavissa.

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Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre

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The Source Provenance of Bronze Age and Roman pottery from Cyprus

The Source Provenance of Bronze Age and Roman pottery from Cyprus

Writing Away: Mobility and Versatility of Scribes at the End of the Bronze Age

Clay models of Phoenician vessels in the Hecht Museum at the University of Haifa, Israel

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