Trojan pithoi A petrographic approach to provenance of Bronze Age storage vessels from Troy特洛伊皮托海：特洛伊青铜时代贮藏容器来源的岩石学探讨.pdfVIP

Applied Clay Science 82 (2013) 44–52 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Applied Clay Science j ournal homepage: www. /locate/clay Research paper Trojan pithoi: A petrographic approach to provenance of Bronze Age storage vessels from Troy Mustafa Kibaroğlu a,⁎, Diane Thumm-Doğrayan b a Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Dept. of Archaeology and Cultural History of the Ancient Near East, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany b Institute for Pre- and Protohistory and Medieval Archaeology, Eberhard-Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Large storage vessels from the Bronze Age periods at Troy were subjected to petrographic analysis in order to Received 27 September 2012 characterize and determine the provenance of the clay raw materials used for their production. The analyses Received in revised form 3 March 2013 reveal that the selected vessels were produced from different clay sources with different clay qualities. They Accepted 8 June 2013 can be assigned to distinct geological areas, between 10 and 20 km south of Troy, in the Ezine region and Available online 12 July 2013 surrounding areas. Different procurement patterns of raw clay can be also recognized. © 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Keywords: Pithoi Bronze Age Troy Provenan