Bronze and Iron Age pottery from Metsamor (2018 season)

• Authors: Iskra, Mateusz , Zakyan, Tigran

Abstracts

EN

A rich and diverse pottery assemblage from the Middle Bronze Age through the Urartian Red Polished 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 I to Iron III, for the first time producing a detailed sequence for the previously less than satisfactorily documented Iron I phase. New types of pottery were also distinguished for the Urartian and post-Urartian phases.

Keywords

EN

Metsamor; pottery; Iron Age; Transcaucasia; Urartu; Late Bronze Age; ceramic sequence

• Publisher: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 28(2)
• Pages: 309-326

Dates

published

2019-12-31

Contributors

author

Iskra, Mateusz

author

Zakyan, Tigran

Identifiers

DOI

10.31338/uw.2083-537x.pam28.2.17