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Late Bronze Age Painted
Pottery Traditions at the
Margins of the Hittite State
Papers Presented at a Workshop Held
at the 11th ICAANE (München 4 April
2018) and Additional Contributions
Edited by
Federico Manuelli and Dirk Paul Mielke
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Contents
Foreword ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� iii
Introduction – Throwing Some Colour on a Plain World ������������������������������������������������������������������ 1
Federico Manuelli and Dirk Paul Mielke
Geometric Painted Pottery of the 2nd Millennium BC in the Central Black Sea Region�
A Contribution to the Archaeology of the Kaška ����������������������������������������������������������������������������� 21
Dirk Paul Mielke
Archaeometric Investigations of Late Bronze Age Painted Pottery from Oymaağaç
Höyük/Nerik, Central Black Sea Region, Türkiye �����������������������������������������������������������������������������59
Mustafa Kibaroğlu, Sonja Behrendt, Tillmann Viefhaus and Dirk Paul Mielke
The Painted Pottery Tradition in Inland South-Western Anatolia during the Late
Bronze Age ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 81
Fulya Dedeoğlu and Erim Konakçı
Late Bronze Age Painted Pottery and its Contextual Relationship to the Hittite Levels
at Ovaören ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������99
S. Yücel Şenyurt and Atakan Akçay
Late Bronze Age Chronology and Painted Pottery in Inland Southern Anatolia ��������������������������113
Alvise Matessi
The Cross-Hatched Red Painted Pottery Tradition at Mersin-Yumuktepe �����������������������������������130
Éric Jean
Style as Representation of Political Hegemony? A View from the Edge of the
Hittite Kingdom��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������147
Elif Ünlü
Red Band Decorated Pottery from Tepebağ Höyük/Adana ������������������������������������������������������������163
Deniz Yaşin and Belgin Aksoy
Painted Pottery Traditions at Sirkeli Höyük in the 2nd Millennium BC ���������������������������������������177
Ekin Kozal
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Just a Matter of Style? Late Bronze Age Painted Pottery Traditions in the Upper Euphrates
Region: Origins and Signicance �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������204
Federico Manuelli
Archaeometric and Technological Investigations of the Late Bronze Age Painted Pottery
from Arslantepe (Malatya, Eastern Türkiye) ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������233
Pamela Fragnoli and Alexandra S. Rodler
Painted Pottery Traditions of Late Bronze Alalakh ������������������������������������������������������������������������248
Mara T. Horowitz
Some Final Remarks �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������280
Hermann Genz and Georey D. Summers
Index �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������286
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Foreword
The idea to bring the ‘Late Bronze Age Painted Pottery Traditions at the Margins of the Hittite State’ in
the focus of supra-regional research was born at the beginning of 2017. At that time, both editors worked
at the Freie Universität Berlin, where our researches were shaped in a bustling atmosphere with lots of
exciting projects. Moreover, a decisive factor was that both of us were engaged in the study of painted
ceramics from the Anatolian Late Bronze Age world in the context of our own projects. In addition,
there were other scholars dealing independently with similar ndings from their excavations…it seems
that sometimes certain issues are in the air. Accordingly, we developed the idea to organise a workshop
about the dierent painted pottery traditions that were apparently clustered around the ‘unpainted’
core region of the Hittite State in the framework of the 11th International Congress on the Archaeology
of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE). Many colleagues accepted the invitation to the workshop with great
enthusiasm and we all met together at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München on the 4th of April
2018. The workshop was very intensive and the fruitful exchange produced a great gain in knowledge
for all participants. But the volume on hand is not only the result of this workshop. For the publication,
the research topic was supplemented with further contributions that expanded the knowledge of the
phenomenon in question. Therefore, we wish to express, rst of all, our gratitude to all the contributors
of the volume, both those that participated in the original workshop and those who decided later to
join this project. A special word of gratitude is needed to Hermann Genz and Georey Summers, who
have accepted the double eort of carefully reviewing all the papers and writing the nal remarks
of the volume: their patience and enthusiasm have been fundamental for its successful publication.
We extend our thanks to the Archaeopress team for having supported this project and have provided
us with all the necessary technical support. Moreover, we are thankful to the organizers of the 11th
ICAANE, and in particular to Michael Herles, for their help and hospitality in Munich. Lastly, it should
be stressed that the publication of this volume was possible due to the research project awarded by
the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG project #324049112). With the awareness that the painted
pottery traditions at the margins of the Hittite State represents an outstanding and to date unexplored
phenomenon, we trust that the book will nd its own place in the scientic community and the subject
gets its due attention within the research topics of Late Bronze Age Anatolia.
Federico Manuelli and Dirk Paul Mielke
Berlin/Rome and Münster, August 2022
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Late Bronze Age Painted Pottery Traditions at the Margins of the Hittite State
Introduction – Throwing Some Colour on a Plain World
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Figure 1�1
Figure 1�2–14
Manuelli and Mielke: Introduction
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Figure 1: Late Bronze Age Hittite Red Slip and Plain Ware pottery, 16th to 13th century BC. 1) Red Slip beak spouted jug
from İnandıktepe (after Özgüç 1988, Pl. E.2); 2–14) Plain Ware from Oymaaǧaç Höyük/ (photos: Oymaaǧaç project/
Henning Marquardt).
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Figure 2�1–411
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Figure 2: Chalcolithic pottery and Early Bronze Age Intermediate Ware. 1–2) Chalcolithic pottery from Büyük Güllücek (after
Koşay and Akok 1957, Pl. XI); 3–4) Chalcolithic pottery from Alişar Höyük (after von der Osten 1937a, Pl. 2.2–3); 5–8) Intermediate
Ware from Alişar Höyük (after von der Osten 1937a, Pl. 4.8–9, Fig. 233.c2264, Fig. 235.6). Not to scale.
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Figure 3
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Figure 3: Early and Middle Bronze Age Cappadocian/Alişar III Ware from 1) Kültepe (after Özgüç 2003, Fig. 151–152); 2) Alişar
Höyük (after von der Osten 1937a, Fig. 241.c226); 3) Kültepe (after Bittel 1934, Pl. VII.3); 4) Alişar Höyük (after von der Osten 1937a, Fig.
239.d2493); 5) Alişar Höyük (after von der Osten 1937a, Fig. 237.c801); 6) Alişar Höyük (after von der Osten 1937a, Pl. V). Not to scale.
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Figure 2�5–8
Figure 2�5–8
Figure 3
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Figure 4, 7�1
Figure 4�1–3
Figure 4�4–7
Figure 3�4
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Figure 4: Middle Bronze Age Wavy Line Pottery from Kültepe. 1–3) Red slipped examples (after Özgüç 2003, Fig. 139 [layer Ib],
Fig. 142 [layer II], Fig. 140 [layer Ib]; 4–7) White slipped examples (after Özgüç 2003, Fig. 185 [layer II], Fig. 150 [layer II], Fig. 122
[layer II], Fig. 123 [layer II]). Not to scale.
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Figure 5�1
Figure 5�2
Figure 5�3–5
Figure 6�1–4 Figure
6�5–7
Figure 5: Middle Bronze Age band decorated pottery from 1) Kültepe (after Özgüç and Özgüç 1953, Fig. 347); 2) Alişar Höyük
(von der Osten 1937b, Fig. 197); 3–5) Maşat Höyük (Özgüç 1982 Pl. 93,2, 51.1; colour photo: D.P. Mielke). Not to scale.
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Figure 6: Imported painted pottery from Kültepe. 1–4) Syro-Cilician Ware from layer IV and II (after Özgüç 1950, Pl. LX.341,
327, 328; Hrouda 1957, Pl. 13.2; Özgüç 1955, Fig. 29a.); 5–7) Khabur Ware from layer Ib (after Hrouda 1989, Fig. 2). Not to scale.
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Figure 7�2
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Figure 7: Hittite painted pottery. 1) Kültepe layer Ib (after Özgüç and Özgüç 1963, Pl. XLIII.342, Pl. LI.469); 2) İnandıktepe (after
Özgüç 1988, Pl. 35.1a, Fig. 25–26); 3–5) Boğazköy-Ḫattuša (after Fischer 1963, Taf. 15.159, Taf. 17.213, Taf. 14.154, colour photo:
Boğazköy-Excavation); 6) İnandıktepe (after Schoop 2013, Fig. 11). Not to scale.
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Figure 7�3–5
Figure 7�6
Figure 4�1, 7�1
Figure 3�1
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Figure 8
Figure 8: Painted pottery traditions at the margins of the Hittite State. Pottery regions, mains sites presented in this volume
and further comparisons (map: D.P. Mielke).
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Ware
Groups Wares’ Denition Site LBA
Chronology
Potential
Distribution Possible Origin Further
Contacts
Geometric Wares
Cross-Hatched
Wares
Wavy-
Line
Wares
Syro-Cilician
Wares
Red Band Wares
Other
Wares
Table 1: Late Bronze Age painted pottery. Ware groups denition, chronology, distribution, origin and spread (for
correspondences between the chronological abbreviations used in the table and the absolute dating see the single contributions
in the volume).
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Table 1
Figure 4
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