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Document Details : Title: Habur Ware Subtitle: Where are the Stylistic and Functional Sources of the Painted Pottery of the Second Millennium BCE Habur River Basin? Author(s): BIENIADA, Michael E. Journal: Ancient Near Eastern Studies Volume: 46 Date: 2009 Pages: 160-211 DOI: 10.2143/ANES.46.0.2040716 Abstract : The problem of origin, development and cultural affiliation of Habur Ware has been disputed for decades. Four main theories have been proposed to explain the phenomenon: theory of an eastern origin, theory of a Trans-Caucasian origin, an indigenous origin theory and a Syro-Cilician origin theory. In the following discussion, the author puts a proposition that the origin and development of Habur Ware was a multidirectional phenomenon i.e. that Habur Ware was typologically rooted in third millennium pottery tradition of North Mesopotamia (which is a proof of the persistence of traditional ways of consumption), while its geometric decoration was strongly influenced by painted pottery of Syro-Cilicia (that was an effect of adoption of fashionable decorative motifs). |
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