Tarsus EBA sample 58 | The Levantine Ceramics Project

Petrographic sample: Tarsus EBA sample 58

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Vessel Registration Number:

Tarsus EBA sample 58

Site Name

Tarsus, Gozlukule

Date

2450-2000 BCE

Shape

Plate

Country/Region

Turkey/Eastern Mediterranean

Period

Early Bronze III

Functional Category

Dining/Drinking/Serving

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Description

Has a very fine fabric with copious calcite inclusions. There is also some fine quartz, feldspars (some plagioclase with twinning), and few mica. There are fine siliceous rock fragments, perhaps chert.

Thin Section Photos 4

Tarsus EBA sample 58

Plate

Tarsus

2450-2000 BCE

Early Bronze III

Tarsus EBA sample 58

Plate

Tarsus

2450-2000 BCE

Early Bronze III

Tarsus EBA sample 58

Plate

Tarsus

2450-2000 BCE

Early Bronze III

Tarsus EBA sample 58

Plate

Tarsus

2450-2000 BCE

Early Bronze III

Break Photos 1

Tarsus EBA sample 58

Plate

Tarsus

2450-2000 BCE

Early Bronze III

Vessel Images 3

Tarsus EBA sample 58

Plate

Tarsus

2450-2000 BCE

Early Bronze III

Tarsus EBA sample 58

Plate

Tarsus

2450-2000 BCE

Early Bronze III

Tarsus EBA sample 58

Plate

Tarsus

2450-2000 BCE

Early Bronze III

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Petrographic Sample

Suggested Clay Provenance

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Inclusions

Some small grits and little mica. The clay is overall well treated and compact.

Geological Formation

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Local Petrographic Group

Tarsus Local Fabric I

Raw Material

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Associated Petrofabric

Turkey/Tarsus Local Fabric I

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Associated Kiln/Workshop

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Associated Ware/Ware Family

Cilician EBA Light Clay Ware

3300-2000 BCE

Early Bronze Age

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Bibliography

Elif Ünlü. "Technological and stylistic evaluation of the Early Bronze Age pottery at Tarsus-Gözlükule, Turkey: Pottery production and its interaction with economic, social, and cultural spheres", PhD, Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World, University of Pennsylvania, 2009. https://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI3381877
H. Goldman. Excavations at Gözlü Kule, Tarsus 2, from the Neolithic through the Bronze Age. . New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1956

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