Vorarbeiten zu einer Typologie der Keramik der Perioden Früh-Ğazira II bis IV von Tall Mozan, Bereiche B6 und C2

Abstract

Tell Mozan, ancient Urkesh, is the material source of the current study, which represented a major urban city centre in Jazirah region during the Early Bronze Age. The present research follows the Jazirah terminological system and bases on the early Jazirah ceramic of the time span between 2600-2100 B. C. (including FGII, FGIIIa, FGIIIb and FGIV) from three seasons of german excavations at the upper Mound at Tell Mozan during 1999-2001. The excavated area of FGII period is very restricted, while the ceramic context of FGIIIa and FGIIIb reflects outside yards for household activities and the stratigraphy of the FGIV period represents a residential quarter.

The applied method of this research depends not only on a detailed description of both form and ware of diagnostic sherds but also on applying a statistical analysis at the form and ware of the diagnostic sherds and then evaluating the data.

The main objective of this study is to determine the major relative chronological indicators, defining each period at this time span by the most important indicators.