Gordion 8437-P-3402 | The Levantine Ceramics Project

Vessel: Gordion 8437-P-3402

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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

Closed vessel, large

Shape Type

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Fabric Description

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Measurements (cms)

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Functional Category

Household/Utility

Surface treatment

Over a buff thick slip, painted decoration in two registers: lower one contains a cross-hatched panel; upper a tree, five vertical strokes, and a tree. Between registers four horizontal lines.

Manufacturing Technique

Wheel made

Firing

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Vessel Images 1

Gordion 8437-P-3402

Closed vessel, large

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. Found August 15, 1965. Joining sherds preserve fragmentary rim, with neck and shoulder of large closed vessel with steeply sloping shoulder and neck ridge.