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Document Details : Title: Export and Imitation Abroad Subtitle: The Spread of the Reduction Wares in Southern Cappadocia Author(s): MANTOVAN, Alessio Journal: Ancient Near Eastern Studies Volume: 61 Date: 2024 Pages: 193-218 DOI: 10.2143/ANES.61.0.3294029 Abstract : Reduction wares are ceramic products fired in a reduction environment well attested in Anatolia during the first millennium BCE and characterised by a dark colour, gray or black. This ceramic production also became a political marker to identify the territories under Phrygian control. This view can be partially revised in light of the advancement of research over the past decades, in particular for territories distant from the core region of Phrygia, like southern Cappadocia. All of the definitions proposed for this ceramic class and its territorial and chronological distribution will be discussed. This paper presents also the petrographic and morpho-stylistic analysis of 78 Reduction Ware sherds found on the citadel of Niğde-Kınık Höyük. Reduction Ware production appears at the site starting from the period of Niğde-Kınık Höyük IV (eighth to sixth centuries BCE), but it continues also during the Achaemenid and Hellenistic periods. The working hypothesis of the article concerns the possible northern provenance of some of the Reduction Ware sherds found at Niğde-Kınık Höyük, which can be related to vessels found at Yassıhöyük-Gordion, datable to the Middle Phrygian Period. If this hypothesis proves to be correct, Niğde-Kınık Höyük could be included in the list of sites in southern Cappadocia bearing strong contacts with Phrygia. |
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