Review to: BLAYLOCK, S.R. — Tille Höyük 3.2. The Iron Age: Pottery, Objects and Conclusions. (BIA 50). British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, London 2016, in Bibliotheca Orientalis LXXIV 5-6, 2017, 656-660. (original) (raw)
Related papers
Qedem Reports 11: Ayelet Gilboa, Ilan Sharon, Jeffrey R. Zorn and Sveta Matskevich. EXCAVATIONS AT DOR, FINAL REPORT VOLUME IIB. AREA G, THE LATE BRONZE AND IRON AGES: POTTERY, ARTIFACTS, ECOFACTS AND OTHER STUDIES, 2018
2016. Chapter 10. The Iron IIA and IIB Pottery: An Introduction
In: Herzog, Z. and Singer-Avitz, L. Beer-Sheba III. The Early Iron IIA Enclosed Settlement and the Late Iron IIA- Iron IIB Cities, Volumes I-III. (Monograph Series of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University No. 33). Tel Aviv: 477- 481. , 2016
THE IRON AGE IIA POTTERY ASSEMBLAGE AT TELL ES-SÂFI/GATH
The Proceedings of the 4th International Congress of the Archaeology of the Ancient Near, 29 March – 3 April 2004, Freie Universität Berlin, Volume II. East Social and Cultural Transformation. The Archaeology of Transitional Periods and Dark Ages, 2008
Karkemish. Una capitale dell'età del Ferro nella regione di Gaziantep (OrientLab 2), Bologna, Ante Quem
"During the 2011 excavation campaign at Karkemish Höyük and Yunus, the joint Turco-Italian expedition brought to light several late Iron Age contexts, with a rich pottery assemblage. A preliminary analysis of the Iron Age (hereafter IA) II-III pottery is proposed here on the basis of this fresh evidence as well as on the results of the excavations conducted by C. L. Woolley. The IA II-III materials retrieved by the British Museum expedition came from the Hilani, the Lower Palace area, the Storm-God Temple, the King's Gate, as well as from some buildings of the Outer Town (Houses A, C and D) and the Yunus cemetery. Most of these areas have been newly investigated by the joint Turco-Italian expedition in 2011. In particular the efforts were concentrated in the so-called "Lower Palace Area", where three operations were opened: area A (Storm-God Temple), area B (Hilani) and area C (King's Gate). Another area (D) was opened in the Inner Town with the aim of studying Woolley's "South Gate". In the Outer Town, area E was opened in order to intercept the alleged Assyrian city wall, while close to the Syrian border, we documented the remains of House A and investigated a small part of a cremation cemetery (area F). Therefore during the 2011 excavation domestic, religious, palatial, funerary and military contexts have been investigated. This variety might provide the basis for future studies dealing with functional interpretations of the spaces and the pottery assemblage."""
2000
chambers and the entryway joined to form restorable vessels. The assemblage represents the last days of activity in the structure, during which time the gate was blocked and used for domestic purposes. THE POTTERY OF STRATA VIII-VIA (University of Chicago Expedition) It is essential to establish the date of the assemblage in relation to the University of Chicago Expedition stratigraphy, since the material originates from a structure which is part of the much larger Late Bronze palace complex. Two major difficulties hamper any attempt to evaluate the pottery published in Loud 1948. First, sherds and badly broken vessels, excluding exceptional items, were not recorded. Therefore, the quantitative aspect of the pottery cannot be properly analyzed; nor can one be confident about typology, especially the significance of the negative evidence, i.e., the absence of a given type from an assemblage. Second, due to the Oriental Institute excavators' methodology-especially the fact that work was conducted in large areas without the retention of baulks or the recording of sections-the stratigraphic accuracy of certain sectors is dubious. Further, published pottery originated from both tombs and building remains. In the case of the former, it is generally difficult, if at all possible, to establish a tomb's original association with architectural remains, i.e., with the mound's strata (contra Kenyon 1969; Gonen 1987). In the case of the latter, many of the loci are unreliable, since they are located between buildings or in remains of structures with no floors. The study of the gate assemblage and the isolation of pottery from safe loci of Strata VIII-VIlA were initiated by Orna Zimhoni. After her untimely death in December 1996, the study was completed and this paper written by Israel Finkelstein, with the assistance of Adi Kafri. 2 The 1992 excavation season at the Late Bronze gate was carried out before the formulation of the Megiddo Expedition registration system in 1994; hence the difference between the locus/bucket numbers here and in the other chapters of this volume. 223