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Document Details : Title: An Early Bronze Age III Lead Figurine from Küllüoba Author(s): ŞAHIN, Fatma Journal: Anatolica Volume: 42 Date: 2016 Pages: 29-38 DOI: 10.2143/ANA.42.0.3178199 Abstract : Early examples of lead figurines and trinket moulds are dated to the last quarter of the Early Bronze Age. This group of finds is known mainly from North Mesopotamia, North Syria and Southeast Anatolia. The Trojan EBA lead figurine was, until recently, the only excavation find of its kind which came from the western part of Anatolia. From the two trinket moulds with the negatives of such figurines, one was bought in Izmir. Therefore, the provenance is unknown. The other one is said to have come from Akhisar (Manisa). However, similar finds have recently been recovered in the stratified layers of ongoing excavations at Küllüoba (Eskişehir) and Seyitömer (Kütahya). The lead figurine introduced here was found at Küllüoba in 2012. This lead figurine – together with the Küllüoba and Seyitömer trinket moulds – proves beyond doubt that this group of finds spreads as early as the EB III period in western part of Anatolia. Both the trinket moulds and the lead figurines found in this region not only support Turan Efe’s ‘Great Caravan Route’ theory and J.V. Canby’s thesis, that ‘these molds were distributed over large areas by smiths who travelled along with caravans’, but they also make an important contribution to the establishment of a more reliable chronology of these finds. |
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