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Fourteen - Early Iron Age Greek Pottery at Sidon

The Ritual Context of Consumption

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 May 2024

By
Stefanos Gimatzidis  and
Claude Doumet-Serhal
Edited by
Stefanos Gimatzidis
Stefanos Gimatzidis
Affiliation:
Austrian Archaeological Institute, Vienna
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This paper examines social and cultural contexts of consumption by bringing together notions of space and place, chiefly the social setting in which Sidonians used Greek pots. Earlier studies placed primary value on the morphology of this pottery with fine fabrics and decoration that attracted scholarly attention and was thought to have been similarly perceived in the past. We question here the use of Greek vessels as commodities of value, enhanced by their origin from a distant place and their rare representation in the eastern Mediterranean, and explore them as artefacts of special symbolism due to their contexts of consumption that has ritual implications.

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eastern MediterraneanEuboean pottery exchangeSacred TreeSidon
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Greek Iron Age Pottery in the Mediterranean World
Tracing Provenance and Socioeconomic Ties
 , pp. 423 - 455
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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