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...

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Authors: Gilboa, Ayelet (Author) ; Jones, Richard John (Author) ; Waiman-Barak, Paula (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: The University of Chicago Press 2015
In: Bulletin of ASOR
Year: 2015, Issue: 374, Pages: 75-102
IxTheo 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
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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