Imported West Anatolian Pottery at Gordion

Abstract

Beginning in the early sixth century a large-scale rebuilding programme was undertaken by the Phrygians on the City Mound at Gordion, probably with the approval of their overlords, the Lydians. This renewed activity was no doubt one factor in the appearance at this time of several new imported fine wares at Gordion. These supplement the small number of imports finding their way to Gordion during the seventh century. One large group consists of Lydian pottery belonging to several fabrics including black-on-red, bichrome, marbled ware, and black-on-buff. Detailed study of this pottery has yet to be carried out. Work here will depend heavily on the study and classification of pottery from excavations at Sardis. Another, smaller body of imported pottery came from the cities of Greece. Study of this material, mainly from Corinth, Athens, and East Greece, is being conducted by K. DeVries and is now well advanced. A third small body of pottery, originating from areas to the west and south of Gordion, is presented here. The different wares of this group are very poorly known from other West Anatolian sites, so that the Gordion material adds considerably to our understanding of each of them.

Patterns of Iron Age interaction in central Anatolia: three sites in Yozgat province

“…Decorative identifications are generally based on the Gordion corpus, the best described central Anatolian Iron Age ceramic assemblage (for example, Schaus 1992;Henrickson 1994;2005;Sams 1994;DeVries 1997). Genz's work at Iron Age Bogazkoy provides the other main corpus of well-described Iron Age ceramics (Genz 2004;.…”

“…The over-arching goal of the broader project is to move beyond site-based studies to understand how exchange and interaction patterns changed among Anatolian polities in relation to political and economic transformations after the wide-ranging political collapses of the Late Bronze Age in the eastern Mediterranean, particularly the Hittite collapse. The few previous studies of interaction in this region have been preliminary and typically based on highly diagnostic trade goods or artefactual styles -usually ceramic (for example, Schaus 1992;Gurtekin-Demir 2002). Style, while useful for identifying emulation, is problematic for studying exchange, since it is not spatially tied to a particular location.…”

Scales of impact: Settlement history and landscape change in the Gordion Region, central Anatolia

“…Diagnostic sherds were allocated to their archaeological periods according to typologies established at Gordion (e.g. DeVries, 1997DeVries, , 2005Henrickson, 1993aHenrickson, , 1993bHenrickson, , 1994Henrickson, , 1995aHenrickson, , 1995bHenrickson, , 2002Henrickson, , 2005Henrickson and Blackman, 1996;Henrickson et al, 2002;Sams, 1994;Schaus, 1992;Voigt and Henrickson, 2000). A chronological trend of settlement intensity was derived by comparing the number of sherds collected per period to the length of the archaeological period, using the dates of the standard Gordion chronology (Table 1).…”

Between Phrygia and Cilicia: the Porsuk area at the beginning of the Iron Age

“…The small hemispherical bowls (Dupre 1983: pi 44;Schaus 1992: no 16) from Porsuk are either coated with white slip or have a monochrome or bichrome decoration over orange. Dupre finds parallels with Late Bronze Age products at Porsuk.…”