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Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean

Bronze and Iron Age pottery from Metsamor (2018 season)

2019, 28, No. 2

Mateusz Iskra

0000-0001-6927-514X

University of Warsaw, Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology

University of Warsaw, Polish Centre of MediterraneanArchaeology

University of Warsaw, Institute of Archaeology, PhD candidate

Tigran Zakyan

Service for the Protection of Historical Environment and Cultural Museum-Reservations, Ministry of Culture, Republic of Armenia

DOI

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

Publication date

31.12.2019

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CC BY 4.0 Int.

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Humanities

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archeology

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English

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Abstract

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.

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