On the Origin of Iron Age Phoenician Ceramics at Kommos, Crete: Regional and Diachronic Perspectives across the Bronze Age to Iron Age Transition
Excavations at Kommos, Crete, have unearthed hundreds of fragments of Iron Age Levantine transport jars--an unusual phenomenon in the Iron Age Mediterranean. Though usually termed "Phoenician," their origin has never been demonstrated by fabric analysis. This article presents such an analy...
| Published in: | Bulletin of ASOR |
|---|---|
| Authors: | ; ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Journals Online & Print: | Drawer...
|
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
The University of Chicago Press
2015
|
| In: |
Bulletin of ASOR
|
| RelBib Classification: | HH Archaeology KBK Europe (East) KBL Near East and North Africa TB Antiquity TC Pre-Christian history ; Ancient Near East |
| Further subjects: | B
Phoenician trade
B Kommos B Petrography B Iron Age B optical mineralogy B atomic absorption spectrometry B Ceramics B PETROFABRIC analysis B Petrology B Phoenicians B Phoenician pottery B Mediterranean trade B ceramic analysis B Bronze Age |
| Online Access: |
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | Excavations at Kommos, Crete, have unearthed hundreds of fragments of Iron Age Levantine transport jars--an unusual phenomenon in the Iron Age Mediterranean. Though usually termed "Phoenician," their origin has never been demonstrated by fabric analysis. This article presents such an analysis, employing petrography and chemistry. To a large extent, this is a rather unexplored domain because fabric analyses of Phoenician Iron Age ceramics overseas are surprisingly few. The compositional data indicate that most of the jars are indeed from Lebanon, specifically from its southern coast. To place these results in a diachronic and regional perspective, we discuss the chronology of these finds and then compare the production centers identified with those defined in other provenance studies of Levantine containers overseas. This illustrates the growing importance of southern Lebanese polities in Iron Age Mediterranean networks at the expense of the Syrian littoral, on the one hand, and the coast of the southern Levant, on the other. |
|---|---|
| ISSN: | 2161-8062 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American Schools of Oriental Research, Bulletin of ASOR
|
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5615/bullamerschoorie.374.0075 |