Hellenıstıc perıod pottery from comanaın cappadocıa

Abstract

Abstract: Comana in Cappadocia, is considered among the important temple states of Anatolia in antiquity. Today, Comana is at Şarköy in the Tufanbeyli district of Adana province. The subject of this article is the Hellenistic pottery found in and around Şarköy. In Comana in research to date, until the late Hellenistic period, there have been no archaeological or epigraphic finds. However, in this study, through pottery finds, important information concerning the city's chronology and its Hellenistic pottery production was established. Finds are classified both typologically and chronologically, and these finds from the city indicate local ceramic production. Clay structures, the use of the line-decoration style, a great extent local characteristics of finds and numerous corrupted production contain- ers is to keep it light. The earliest pottery finds date from immediately before or to the beginning of the Hellenistic period. Further, containers from the early Hellenistic period onwards which were popular in other Hellenistic centers are represented by characteristic examples dating from between the third and first centuries B.C. Some of these groups continued to be produced, with examples of the sigillata type until the first century A.D.