Gordion 8432-P-3398 | The Levantine Ceramics Project

Vessel: Gordion 8432-P-3398

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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

M6C, South Cellar

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Vessel Details

Shape

Bowl

Shape Type

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Fabric Description

Fabric medium, clay fine with some small added grit and occasional mica.

Measurements (cms)

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Functional Category

Dining/Drinking/Serving

Surface treatment

Polished over the paint. Painted decoration in matte black brush lines of various thicknesses: groups of thin multiple brush lines around floor. Zone under rim: spaced radiating lines. Band on rim. On exterior widely spaced single wheelrun lines.

Manufacturing Technique

Wheel made

Firing

Fired bright orange red throughout.

Vessel Images 2

Gordion 8432-P-3398

Bowl

Gordion

690 - 680 BCE

Iron Age III

Gordion 8432-P-3398

Bowl

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 121: 126. Found August 11, 1965. Two rim sherds, non-joining, from same bowl. Base, if any, unknown. Wall rises in ca. hemispherical curve to plain rim.