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Sultantepe: Part II Post-Assyrian Pottery and Small Objects Found by the Anglo Turkish Joint Expedition in 1952

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

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In a preliminary report (Anatolian Studies, Vol. II, p. 14) we have already referred to the “Pergamene” pottery, which constituted by far the most distinctive ware both in the Hellenistic and the Roman levels at Sultantepe. This pottery was also found in large quantities at sites in North Syria and Cilicia such as Gözlü Kule at Tarsus, Dura Europos and Antioch-on-the-Orontes, and is discussed and analysed with particular thoroughness in the publication of the latter (Antioch, Vol. IV, Part I, pp. 18 ff.). We are now able to illustrate from Sultantepè examples of these wares, for which parallels can easily be found at the sites mentioned above. Such parallels are in fact indicated in the Catalogue of shapes in our Fig. 1. Features of the Hellenistic Pergamene which are more easily recognisable in photographs (Plate VII, 2) are, for instance, the rouletted or grooved circles on the floor of open dishes and the combination of the rouletted circle with imprinted leaves (cf. Antioch, Fig. 2). Fragments of Hellenistic “moulded bowls” in Pl. VII, 1 should also be compared to those from Tarsus (Tarsus, Figs. 9 ff.).

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Copyright © The British Institute at Ankara 1954

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page 101 note 1 Excavations at Gözlü Kule, Tarsus. Princeton 1950. Vol.IGoogle Scholar. Plates.—The Excavations at Dura Europos. Final Report IV. Part I. Fasc. 2. 1949.—Antioch-on-the-Orontes. Vol. IV. Part I. Princeton 1948Google Scholar.

page 102 note 1 A ware whose description (Antioch, p. 80) corresponds, even in the use of tripods for stacking in the kiln and other minor details, was found at Antioch. Though compared by Waagé to glaze from Seleucia-on-the-Tigris, its origin is for some reason sought in Egypt rather than in Iraq.

page 102 note 2 Various forms of modelled or impressed decoration on a jar of this type may be seen in Lane, , Early Islamic Pottery. London, 1947. Pl. IGoogle Scholar.