Hellenistic tableware with stamped decoration from Tell Arbid (Syria)
Hellenistic tableware with stamped decoration from Tell Arbid (Syria)

Author(s): Marta Momot
Subject(s): Archaeology, Ancient World
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Syria; Tell Arbid; Hellenistic tableware; decorated bowls; stamped decoration; palmettes; lanceolate leaves; rosettes; roulette
Summary/Abstract: Tell Arbid, an extensive and multicultural site in northeastern Syria,encompasses a dominant large tell and three smaller mounds, oneof which yielded remains of a Hellenistic settlement. Exemplars ofHellenistic pottery unearthed there comprised, mainly, fragmentsof tableware covered with red slip, Two pieces from this assemblagefeatured stamped decoration on the floors of bowls: a small rosetteand four palmettes in one case and a design of 12 lanceolate leaves andsmall rosettes in the other. They are rare examples of local adaptationof ornaments typical of tableware from the main production centersof the age. One also features an atypical use of stamping for thereproduction of a decoration originally made in a different technique.

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