Gordion 8024-P-3219 | The Levantine Ceramics Project

Vessel: Gordion 8024-P-3219

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Context Information

Site Name

Gordion

Date

690 - 680 BCE

Site Type

City

Country/Region

Turkey/Central

Period

Iron Age III

Archaeological Context

M5E, South Cellar

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Vessel Details

Shape

Closed vessel

Shape Type

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Fabric Description

Fine fabric

Measurements (cms)

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Functional Category

Household/Utility

Surface treatment

Painted a chocolate gray, well polished over paint. Gadroons are flattened vertical lobes, melon-shaped. Traces of paint in five brush lines: on shoulder (or bottom) zigzags between lines; on gadroons (1) dotted vertical cross-hatching, (2) vertically set herringbone of strikes between lines. All gadroons closed with scalloped line of strokes between lines.

Manufacturing Technique

Wheel made

Firing

Fired light orange buff at core, dull creamy buff on surface.

Vessel Images 2

Gordion 8024-P-3219

Closed vessel

Gordion

690 - 680 BCE

Iron Age III

Gordion 8024-P-3219

Closed vessel

Gordion

690 - 680 BCE

Iron Age III

Break Photos 0

Thin Section Photos 0

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Associated Ware/Ware Family/Style

Phrygian painted wares -- various

9th-4th c. BCE

Iron Age II-III, Achaemenid Persian

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Associated Petrofabric

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Associated Kiln/Workshop

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Bibliography

Dusinberre, Elspeth R. M. ; Vassileva, Maya. "The South Cellar: Elite Feasting at Gordion's Inner Court in the Middle Phrygian Period" in Middle and Late Phrygian Gordion, ed(s). Rose, C. Brian. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Museum, Forthcoming

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Discussion/Acknowledgements

NB 119: 10. Found June 4, 1965. Sherd from shoulder or lower body of a jug or other closed shape. Body roughly spherical with gadrooned area near center wall.