Between Cilician Taurus and Tigris - Glazed Pottery of the 8th to the 15th Century as Indicator of Cultural Changes?

该项目有两个目标：第一个目标是对迄今为止被忽视的西利西亚金牛座和底格里斯河之间地区的釉面陶器进行全面研究。通过包括来自Sirkeli Höyük、Yilankale、tepebaul（阿达纳省）、Doliche（加济安泰普省）、Lidar Höyük和Harran （Sanliurfa省）的未发表材料，将系统而全面地呈现釉陶的光谱。考古分析（LA-ICP-MX， XRD和SEM/EDX）将用于证实考古方法所建立的釉陶生产技术，出处和分布的结果。有代表性的样品已经可以在合作的德国研究所进行分析。进一步的釉面陶器碎片的出口得到了Gaziantep restorason ve Konservasyon Bölge laboratuvaryi Müdürlüğü[的保证。这个位于加济亚特普的研究所负责从位于土耳其地区的发现点收集材料，这是该项目的重点所在。这些努力最终将在对公元8世纪至15世纪的釉面陶器的研究中找到西利西亚金牛座和底格里斯河之间的地点。这将为进一步研究该地区及相关地区出土材料的年代学及其对文化和经济进程的意义提供急需的基础。在这样做的过程中，该项目不仅填补了学术空白，而且将其重点放在构成拜占庭和伊斯兰势力范围之间接触区的地区。这些方面直接导致了这个项目的第二个更广泛的目标。所选择的调查主题之所以引人注目，是因为在拜占庭和伊斯兰时代的所有发现点都发现了大量这些物品。此外，由于其在拜占庭或伊斯兰领域的独立生产中心，它非常适合此类查询。至关重要的是要确定所讨论的区域是否真的可以被理解为受拜占庭文化和伊斯兰文化影响的地区之间的“桥梁”。我们将清楚地看到，釉面陶器是如何将研究更深入的东地中海和近东地区联系起来的，以及出口、贸易关系和文化转移是如何受到不断变化的历史条件的影响的。拜占庭和伊斯兰釉面陶器制作之间的相互影响将会引起人们特别高的兴趣，因为它们的地理和历史环境。

The project pursues two goals: The first one is a comprehensive study of the glazed pottery of the thus far neglected region between the Cilician Taurus and the Tigris. By including unpublished material from Sirkeli Höyük, Yilankale, Tepebağ (province of Adana), Doliche (province of Gaziantep), Lidar Höyük and Harran (province of Sanliurfa) the spectrum of glazed pottery is going to be presented systematically and comprehensively. Archaeometric analyses (LA-ICP-MX, XRD and SEM/EDX) will be used to corroborate the results concerning production-techniques, provenience and distribution of glazed pottery established by archaeological methods. Representative samples are already available for analyses to be analyzed at the cooperating German institutes. The export of further fragments of glazed pottery has been guaranteed by the ›Gaziantep Restorasyon ve Konservasyon Bölge Laboratuvarı Müdürlüğü‹. This institute at Gaziatep is responsible for the material from find spots situated in the region in Turkey on which the focus of this project lies. These efforts will culminate in a study on glazed pottery of the 8th to 15th century AD of find spots between the Cilician Taurus and the Tigris. It will form the urgently needed basis for further research on chronology and significance for cultural and economical processes of find material from this area and related regions. In doing so, the project not only fills an academic void but also places its focus on a region that constituted a contact zone between Byzantine and Islamic spheres of influence.These aspects lead directly to the second, broader goal of this project. The chosen subject of investigation stands out because of the great quantities in which these objects have been discovered at all find spots of the Byzantine and Islamic times. Furthermore, it is ideally suited for such enquiries because of its independent production centres in the Byzantine or Islamic domains. It is essential to ascertain if the region in question can actually be understood as a “bridge” between the areas influenced by Byzantine and Islamic culture. It is going to become clear in which way glazed pottery might have connected the more thoroughly researched regions of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Near East and how export, trading relations and cultural transfers were affected by continuously changing historical conditions. The reciprocal influences between the Byzantine and Islamic glazed pottery-productions will be of an especially high interest with regards to their geographical and historical circumstances.