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Focused on triangles and circles: some peculiarities of the incised pottery decoration of the Hellenistic period in Central Asia

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F18%3A10391560" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/18:10391560 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://www.academia.edu/37589835/Focused_on_triangles_and_circles_SOME_PECULIARITIES_OF_THE_INCISED_POT_TERY_DECORATION_OF_THE_HELLENISTIC_PERIOD_IN_CENTRAL_ASIA" target="_blank" >https://www.academia.edu/37589835/Focused_on_triangles_and_circles_SOME_PECULIARITIES_OF_THE_INCISED_POT_TERY_DECORATION_OF_THE_HELLENISTIC_PERIOD_IN_CENTRAL_ASIA</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Focused on triangles and circles: some peculiarities of the incised pottery decoration of the Hellenistic period in Central Asia

  • Original language description

    The pottery traditions of prehistoric Central Asia, with some minor exceptions (as widespread matt painted ware of the Yaz I period, for instance), typically did not feature painted, stamped or relief decoration. Most of the well-studied Bronze Age and Early Iron Age wheel-thrown wares were simple, undecorated. Various decorative techniques on a wider scale were employed for the first time only in the Hellenistic period. While rare relief or mold-made decoration is clearly of the Greek Hellenistic origin (&quot;Megarian bowls&quot; etc.) and was introduced to Bactria only after Alexander the Great, the incised ornamentation, prominent on the later Kushan wares, may had had more complicated background. Among the motives that occur on the Hellenistic pottery of Bactria and adjacent regions, specific geometric patterns - such as triangles, small circles, or both combined - appear, even if rarely. In this paper, various aspects of these specific motives, their origin, semantics, spatial distribution and later use and developments will be addressed. Latest finds show that this type of decoration may help with dating and classification of newly surveyed sites as the Hellenistic ones, especially in those cases, where the most typical forms of the given period are lacking. The hypothesis about such chronological sensitivity of the geometric patterns needs to be further evaluated and verified.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    O - Miscellaneous

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    60102 - Archaeology

Result continuities

  • Project

    <a href="/en/project/EF16_019%2F0000734" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000734: Creativity and Adaptability as Conditions of the Success of Europe in an Interrelated World</a><br>

  • Continuities

    P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>O - Projekt operacniho programu

Others

  • Publication year

    2018

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů