New Light on the Bronze Age Ceramics from H. Schliemann’s Excavations at Troy: Studies on the Munich and Poznań Collections within the Anatolian-Aegean Cultural Context

Dariusz Maliszewski

City: Oxford

Year: 2010

Publisher: Archaeopress

Series: BAR International Series 2119

Description: Paperback, 402 p., b/w and colour plates, 29,7x21 cm

Abstract (from the Introduction)

The geographical position of Troy at the cross-roads between Anatolia, the Aegean, Black and Marmara Seas, as well as the eastern Balkans, has made it a focal point of cultural, economic and political relations for these regions. One aspect of this huge, multidimensional subject, being investigated for many years, is the collections of artefacts from H. Schliemann’s excavations in Troy kept at many museums.

Examination of the archaeological material from older excavations has always been, for various reasons, a challenge for archaeological research, but this is the ground on which old practices and new theories test their limits and find their justification. Unfortunately, in my studies I was not able, first of all for financial reasons, to reach all the Trojan items stored at many museums, mainly in Germany, Turkey and Greece. Also from a logistical point of view this is really a gigantic task – beyond the capabilities of one person. For instance, only Schliemann’s collection at Berlin, even if one takes into consideration the enormous number of artefacts, has been the topic of a well established team research project. This is why the project focused only on the artefacts kept at Munich and Poznań, which had been catalogued on the basis of my own, firsthand examinations. But again due to financial and first of all technical limitations they had not been a subject of specialized analyses. All observations concerning that aspect of both the collections were gained using a magnifying glass. Since the bulk of the studied material is homogeneous and belongs to the Bronze Age, the project focuses mainly on Troy II-VII.

Contents

INTRODUCTION [1]

I. THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL BACKGROUND [3]

1. Troy I [4]
2. Troy II [10]
3. Troy III [19]
4. Troy IV [22]
5. Troy V [24]
6. Troy VI [27]
7. Troy VII [34]
8. Post-Bronze Age Troy VIII-X [40]

II. AN OVERVIEW OF PREVIOUS RESEARCH ON THE CERAMICS UNDER CONSIDERATION [49]

1. Pottery [49]
2. Whorls [61]
3. Loom weights [67]
4. Pierced pottery disc sherds [68]

III. THE HISTORY AND RECONSTRUCTION OF THE COLLECTIONS [71]

1. From Troy to Europe [71]
2. The State Collections of Antiquities, Munich [76]
3. The Archaeological State Collection, Museum of Pre- and Protohistory, Munich [83]
4. The National Museum, Poznań [85]

IV. THE CATALOGUE [95]

1. Pottery [96]
2. Whorls [128]
3. Loom weights [142]
4. Pierced pottery disc sherds [143]

V. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUDING REMARKS [147]

1. Pottery [147]
2. Whorls [209]
3. Loom weights [253]
4. Pierced pottery disc sherds [271]
5. Problems and prospects [279]

REFERENCES [283]

ARCHIVES [329]

ABBREVIATIONS [331]

LIST OF TABLES [333]

MAP [335]

DRAWINGS [341]

PHOTOGRAPHS [371]