Regional Spotlight: Eastern Mediterranean

This article assembles examples of an unusual vessel found in domestic contexts of the Early Bronze Age around the Aegean and in the Eastern Mediterranean. Identified as a “barrel vessel” by the excavators of Troy, Lesbos (Thermi), Lemnos (Poliochni), and various sites in the Chalkidike, the shape finds its best parallels in containers identified as churns in the Chalcolithic Levant, and related vessels from the Eneolithic Balkans. Levantine parallels also exist in miniature form, as in the Aegean at Troy, Thermi, and Poliochni, and appear as part of votive figures in the Near East. My interpretation of their use and development will consider how they compare to similar shapes in the archaeological record, especially in Aegean prehistory, and what possible transregional relationships they may express along with their specific function as household processing vessels for dairy products during the third millennium BC.

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Greek Settlements in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea

10.30861/9781841714424 ◽

2002 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Keyword(s):

Black Sea ◽

Eastern Mediterranean ◽

The Black Sea

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Westward Palaearctic range expansion of Papilio demoleus Linnaeus, 1758 (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae) and its arrival at Mediterranean coastal regions of Turkey and Syria

Entomologist s Gazette ◽

10.31184/g00138894.714.1776 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 71 (4) ◽

pp. 257-272

Author(s):

Onat Başbay ◽

Mudar Salimeh ◽

Eddie John

Keyword(s):

Eastern Mediterranean ◽

Economic Importance ◽

Invasive Pest ◽

Pest Species ◽

Coastal Regions ◽

The North ◽

North Eastern ◽

The World ◽

Invasive Pest Species ◽

Papilio Demoleus

We review the continuing and extensive spread of Papilio demoleus in south-eastern Turkey and in regions of Turkey and Syria adjacent to the north-eastern Mediterranean. Since the authors documented the arrival of this attractive but potentially destructive papilionid species at coastal areas of Syria in 2019, regular monitoring has confirmed successful overwintering there, as well as in Turkey. As previously indicated, P. demoleus is widely recognized as an invasive pest species in Citrus-growing areas of the world and hence its arrival is of potential economic importance to a region in which citrus is widely grown.

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How Roman Are Roman Houses in the Eastern Mediterranean? The House of Leukaktios (Ptolemais, Cyrenaica) and the House of Orpheus (Nea Paphos, Cyprus) as Case Studies

10.31338/0082-044x.swiatowit.58.7 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 107-121

Author(s):

Monika Rekowska

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

Case Studies ◽

Eastern Mediterranean ◽

Residential Units ◽

Urban Elite

Cyprus and Cyrenaica, two regions strongly influenced by the Alexandrian cultural heritage, which came under the Roman rule already in the 1st century BC, are simultaneously both typical and unusual examples of acculturation understood as a mixture of Hellenistic and Roman components. This is reflected in various spheres of life, including the architecture of the houses owned by members of the urban elite which are investigated in this article. Two residential units – the House of Leukaktios at Ptolemais in Cyrenaica and the House of Orpheus at Nea Paphos in Cyprus – will be presented to discuss different attitudes towards Romanisation from the perspective of an individual as reflected by particular dwellings.

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