A Canaanite jar with a Cypro-Minoan inscription from Tiryns: TIRY Avas 001
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Brent Davis
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Joseph Maran
Abstract
More inscribed Canaanite jars have been found at the palatial centre of Tiryns than at any other site on the Greek mainland. The Cypro-Minoan inscription TIRY Avas 001, on a Canaanite jar handle from Tiryns, was first published in 1988. Since then, however, a second (unpublished) inscribed handle from that jar has been identified, along with the vessel’s rim, base, and enough body sherds to reconstruct the entire vessel. In this article, we present the reconstructed jar and its incised Cypro-Minoan signs, including a detailed account of the varied contexts of each recovered sherd, as well as a macroscopic analysis of the vessel’s fabric and what this says about its place of origin. We then discuss the probable meanings and uses of the jar and of the writing on it, and outline the probable path of the vessel from its creation on the Levantine coast, to its inscription on Cyprus, to its deposition in a final palatial destruction context in the Lower Citadel of Tiryns.
© 2024 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelei
- Inhalt
- Aufsätze
- A Canaanite jar with a Cypro-Minoan inscription from Tiryns: TIRY Avas 001
- A new personal name in the Linear B tablets from Pylos
- A round altar with a Carian inscription from Euromos
- Observations on the language of the newly discovered Phrygian inscription from Gordion (G-12)
- Shaping the Pamphylian alphabet: the puzzle of the two digammas
- New Lycian and Greek graffiti from Patara: edition and onomastic commentary
- Les nasales syllabiques en lycien
- Voyelles nasales et voyelles nasalisées en lycien
