Hybridity of Style: Iron Age Pottery from Sirkeli Höyük
Sabine Kuleimann, Hanna Mönninghoff
The recent series of excavations at Sirkeli Höyük has provided a well-stratified pottery sequence from domestic contexts of the Early and Middle Iron Ages. In terms of decoration, style and shape repertoire, the pottery shows many connections with neighboring as well as with more distant regions, including Anatolia, the Northern Levant, Upper Mesopotamia, the Aegean world and, in particular, Cyprus. This paper presents a pottery assemblage from excavation sector D at Sirkeli Höyük that reflects both the site’s many different contacts, and its local traditions. It shows that new inputs had a continuous influence on local pottery and led to a blend of various styles.
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Kulemann-Ossen S., Mönninghoff H. 2019, Hybridity of Styles: Iron Age Pottery from Sirkeli Höyük, SMEA NS 5, 111-146.