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

该项目追求两个目标：第一个目标是对西里西亚金牛座和底格里斯河之间迄今被忽视的地区的釉陶器进行全面研究。通过收录来自Sirkeli Höyük，Yilankale，Tepebağ(阿达纳省)，Doliche(加济安泰普省)，Lidar Höyük和Harran(桑柳尔法省)的未出版材料，釉陶的光谱将被系统和全面地呈现出来。考古计量学分析(LA-ICPMX、X射线衍射仪和扫描电子显微镜/EDX)将用于证实考古方法建立的釉陶器的生产技术、产地和分布的结果。有代表性的样品已经可以在合作的德国研究所进行分析。更多的釉面陶器碎片的出口得到了加济安泰普餐厅和Bölge实验室ıMüdürlüğü>的保证。Gaziatep的这个研究所负责从土耳其地区的Find地点获得材料，该地区是该项目的重点所在。这些努力将在对公元8世纪至15世纪的釉陶器的研究中达到高潮，寻找西里西亚金牛座和底格里斯河之间的斑点。这将为进一步研究从该地区及相关地区寻找材料的年表和文化经济过程的意义提供迫切需要的基础。通过这样做，该项目不仅填补了一个学术空白，而且将其重点放在了一个构成拜占庭和伊斯兰势力范围之间的接触区的地区。这些方面直接导致了该项目的第二个更广泛的目标。选定的调查对象之所以引人注目，是因为在拜占庭和伊斯兰时代的所有遗址都发现了大量的这些物品。此外，由于其在拜占庭或伊斯兰地区的独立生产中心，它非常适合进行这类调查。至关重要的是，必须确定有关地区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”。釉陶器可能以何种方式连接了更深入研究的地中海东部和近东地区，以及不断变化的历史条件如何影响出口、贸易关系和文化转移，这一点将变得清晰起来。拜占庭和伊斯兰釉陶器生产之间的相互影响将特别引起人们对其地理和历史环境的高度关注。

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 By including unpublished material from Sirkeli Höyük, Yilankale, Tepebağ (province of Adana), Doliche (province of Gaziantep), Lidar Höyük and Harran (province of Sanliurfa) the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.