Bronze and Iron Age pottery from Metsamor (2018 season) Cover Image

Bronze and Iron Age pottery from Metsamor (2018 season)
Bronze and Iron Age pottery from Metsamor (2018 season)

Author(s): Mateusz Iskra, Tigran Zakyan
Subject(s): Archaeology, Cultural history, Visual Arts, Ancient World, History of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Metsamor; pottery; Iron Age; Transcaucasia; Urartu; Late Bronze Age; ceramic sequence;

Summary/Abstract: A rich and diverse pottery assemblage from the Middle Bronze Age through the Urartian Red Burnished Ware and local “post-Urartian ware” of the Iron III period comes from occupational deposits discovered within the lower town of Metsamor during fieldwork in 2018. The stone architecture recorded in this sector functioned in the first half of the 1st millennium BC. The pottery finds thus represent periods from Iron Age I to Iron Age III, for the first time producing a detailed sequence for the previously less than satisfactorily documented Iron Age I phase. New types of pottery were also distinguished for the Urartian and post-Urartian phases.

  • Issue Year: 2/2019
  • Issue No: XXVIII
  • Page Range: 309-326
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: English