RT Article
T1 On the Origin of Iron Age Phoenician Ceramics at Kommos, Crete: Regional and Diachronic Perspectives across the Bronze Age to Iron Age Transition
JF Bulletin of ASOR
VO 374
SP 75
OP 102
A1 Gilboa, Ayelet
A1 Jones, Richard John
A1 Waiman-Barak, Paula
A2 Jones, Richard John
A2 Waiman-Barak, Paula
LA English
YR 2015
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1577298519
AB Excavations at Kommos, Crete, have unearthed hundreds of fragments of Iron Age Levantine transport jars--an unusual phenomenon in the Iron Age Mediterranean. Though usually termed "Phoenician," their origin has never been demonstrated by fabric analysis. This article presents such an analysis, employing petrography and chemistry. To a large extent, this is a rather unexplored domain because fabric analyses of Phoenician Iron Age ceramics overseas are surprisingly few. The compositional data indicate that most of the jars are indeed from Lebanon, specifically from its southern coast. To place these results in a diachronic and regional perspective, we discuss the chronology of these finds and then compare the production centers identified with those defined in other provenance studies of Levantine containers overseas. This illustrates the growing importance of southern Lebanese polities in Iron Age Mediterranean networks at the expense of the Syrian littoral, on the one hand, and the coast of the southern Levant, on the other.
K1 Bronze Age
K1 Ceramics
K1 Iron Age
K1 Kommos
K1 Mediterranean trade
K1 PETROFABRIC analysis
K1 Petrology
K1 Phoenicians
K1 Phoenician pottery
K1 Phoenician trade
K1 atomic absorption spectrometry
K1 ceramic analysis
K1 optical mineralogy
K1 Petrography
DO 10.5615/bullamerschoorie.374.0075