Thrace Through the Ages : Pottery As Evidence for Commerce and Culture From Prehistoric Times to the Islamic Period

Thrace through the Ages highlights the crucial role that ceramic evidence plays in evaluating archaeological material from Thrace. The volume considers the informative value of pottery in tracing cultural and political phases, by providing us with important data about production centres, commercial relations, daily life, religious rituals, and burial customs. Divided into five sections, this volume first gives a historical overview of Thracian pottery research in relation to its methodological development, before exploring the ways in which ceramic data can be used as evidence of interregional commercial relations and cultural interaction. The third section considers the use of ceramics found in ritual contexts from several sites in Thrace. The fourth section looks at the retrieval and understanding of ceramics from survey and excavated contexts. Chapters in the fifth section focus on specific ceramic wares, which are evaluated by considering both their qualitative and quantitative characteristics. Cover 1 Title Page 3 Copyright page 4 Contents Page 5 Foreword 7 Research History 11 Ceramic Research in Turkish Thrace: Past and Present, Approaches and New Methods 13 Zeynep Koçel Erdem 13 Pottery as Evidence of Commercial and Cultural Interactions 25 Thrace’s Gateway to Anatolia and the Aegean in the Bronze Age: Maydos-Kilisetepe 27 Göksel Sazcı, Meral Başaran Mutlu 27 Variation in Late Iron Age Thracian Ceramics from Bulgaria 45 Ashlee B. Hart 45 On the Terracotta Sarcophagi from Ionia and the Northern Aegean 55 Melike Zeren-Hasdağlı 55 Remarks on the Trade in Red-Figure Pottery in Macedonia and Aegean Thrace 65 Nikos Akamatis 65 Attic Vases in Thrace as Agents of Commercial and Cultural Values 81 Despoina Tsiafaki, Amalia Avramidou 81 Attic and Atticising Glazed Pottery in Eastern Thrace 88 Reyhan Şahi̇n 88 Interprétation des Timbres Amphoriques et des Monnaies provenant des Fouilles d’Héraion Teichos 103 Oya Yağız 103 The Impact of Imports from Asia Minor on Local Production by Northern Thracians 111 Mariana-Cristina Popescu 111 Ilion and its Role in Aegean Trade 122 Billur Tekkök Karaöz 123 The Commercial Network of Ainos from Hellenistic Times to Late Antiquity 142 Asuman Lätzer-Lasar 143 Pottery in Cult Rituals 153 Late Bronze-Early Iron Age Pottery Artefacts in Menekse Catagi Pit Sanctuary 155 Fisun Frank 155 Pottery and Ceramic Finds in Domestic Cult Practices of Serdica 165 Mario Ivanov 165 Evaluating a Cult Place in the Light of the Ceramics from the Northern Propontis 177 H. Arda Bülbül 177 Evaluating Pottery from Surveys and Excavations 191 Pre- and Protohistoric Ceramics from the Thracian Side of Istanbul 193 Haldun Aydıngün, Şengül G. Aydıngün 193 Ainos Pottery from the Early Period 210 Sait Başaran 210 Imported Pottery at Kadıkalesi (Anaia): Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic Periods 229 Yasemİn Polat, R. Gül Gürteki̇n-Demi̇r 229 Newly Discovered Hellenistic Pottery from Western Istanbul 276 Gülseren Kan Şahi̇n, Şengül G. Aydingün 277 Pottery from the Lower Hebros and the Kocaçay Valley Survey 309 Ergün Karaca 309 Ceramic Ware Studies 323 Gebrauchskeramik aus nordgriechischen Befunden 325 Maria Deoudi 325 Coarse Ware Study from Ganos: A Panoramic Approach 333 Sevingül Bi̇lgi̇n Kopçuk 333 Byzantine Glazed Pottery from Thrace 347 Filiz İnanan 347 Byzantine Glazed Pottery from Thracian Chersonessos: Karainebeyli – Hisarlık 358 Ayşe Ç. Türker 358 Mould-Decorated Filter Jugs Unearthed during the İznik Tile Kilns Excavation 372 Belgin Demi̇rsar Arlı, Şennur Kaya, Özlem Erol, Hakan Arlı 373 Back cover 382 Thrace,ceramic studies Thrace through the Ages draws attention to the importance of pottery evidence in evaluating archaeological material from Thrace. The volume considers the informative value of pottery in tracing cultural and political phases, by providing us with important data about production centres, commercial relations, daily life, religious rituals and burial customs. The first chapter examines ceramic research in Thrace from past to present. The second chapter is devoted to the interpretation of the data presented by ceramics regarding interregional commercial relations and cultural interaction. In the third chapter, ceramics are evaluated from the perspective of cult rituals. The fourth chapter includes the excavation and survey ceramics. The fifth chapter is classified according to the ceramic ware. In the last two chapters of the volume, various data presented by ceramics were evaluated by considering their qualitative and quantitative characteristics.