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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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