Mycenaean pottery from Amara West (Nubia, Sudan)

Spataro, Michela; Garnett, Anna; Shapland, Andrew; Spencer, Neal; Mommsen, Hans

doi:10.1007/s12520-017-0552-z

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“…is thought to have grown in Turkey and the east coast of the Mediterranean [35]; pistacia resin and bitumen were imported from the same area [41]. Both bitumen and pistacia resin-materials used as pigment and varnish, respectively-have been identified at Sai and Amara West [9,13], along with ceramics from the eastern Mediterranean and Levant [42,43]. Trading networks that would allow the supply of binding materials from the eastern Mediterranean were clearly extant.…”

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Polysaccharide Paint Binding Media at Two Pharaonic Settlements in Nubia

Fulcher

Spencer

Budka³

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Paints and plasters from two pharaonic settlement sites in Nubia (northern Sudan) were analysed to investigate the presence and origin of organic binding materials. The town of Sai was founded around the time of the pharaonic conquest of Kush (Upper Nubia) around 1500 BC, with Amara West created as a new centre for the pharaonic administration of the region around 1300 BC. Recent fieldwork at both sites yielded examples of paint palettes, including several from houses. These provide a different economic and social context to funerary contexts upon which most previous research has been conducted, making this study the first to report on binding media for vernacular architecture in the Nile Valley. It is also the first study of binding media from Nubia. Gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS) analysis of methanolysed and silylated paint and plaster samples revealed a range of monosaccharides present in eight of the seventeen samples from Amara West, and in six of the seven samples from Sai. Interpretation of the data was supported by field collection and study of locally available botanical gums. The results indicate that mixtures of gums were in use as a pigment binder at both sites during the mid- to late-second millennium BC. The possibility that some of these plant gums could have been imported from the Mediterranean is also posited.

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Polysaccharide Paint Binding Media at Two Pharaonic Settlements in Nubia

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“…The geographical extent of trade and the complexity of the operations are also demonstrated in a sample from Tarsus-Gözlükule, Turkey, as NAA assigns it to the north-east Peloponnesian group, MYBE (Mommsen et al 2011). Similarly, in a recent study by Spataro et al (2019), Mycenaean pottery found at Amara West (Nubia, Sudan) is attributed to the MYBE group.…”

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Interaction and the end of the Late Bronze Age as displayed through neutron activation analysis of Late Helladic sherds: a case study on Asine in the Argolid, Greece

Sjöberg

Mommsen

2021

Archaeol Anthropol Sci

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This article discusses the results of neutron activation analysis made on a limited number of LH IIIB and LH IIIC period sherds from the Argive settlement Asine, Greece. The analysis indicates that the transformation from the palatial to the post-palatial period, on a local level of a village as Asine, was not signified by loss of contacts with the surrounding world. Rather continuity and interaction prevailed, although with other geographical areas as production and use of pottery in the LH IIIB period apparently had a more regional preponderance. The geographical dominance of pottery assigned to producers in north-eastern Peloponnese and distributed over the Mediterranean was terminated, but other operators may have responded to the demand for pottery.

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