Archaische Siedlungsbefunde in Ephesos

The present volume deals with the finds from the Austrian excavations in the archaic settlement underneath the Tetragonos-Agora (1989–1996), which form the core of a pottery study in the context of settlement archaeology. The settlement’s stratigraphy and the architectural residuals give clear evidence of the relative development of the Agora-settlement which consists of four main phases. The related pottery offers the possibility to establish a typo-chronology, which allows the absolute-chronological setting of the settlement’s phases between the early 7th and the mid-6th century BC. Beyond its significance for the site of Ephesus, this typo-chronology is of guiding importance for research in East Greek pottery in general. The study includes two additional Ephesian find spots of great amounts of pottery on the north-western slopes of Panayɩrdaǧ and in the Ephesian theatre, which significantly enlarge the chronological frame provided by the settlement context back to the mid-8th century BC resp. to the late archaic time. Additionally, the finds from all the three find-spots provide reliable evidence of the manifold and diverse regional and supra-regional connections of ancient Ephesus to Ionia, and to the East Aegean. They yield specific features of the local production as well. Based on the consistent material evidence gained from these three find-spots at ancient Ephesus, the intrinsic potential of pottery research in the context of Greek settlement archaeology is confirmed by finally dealing with questions of functional and of cultural-historical dimensions. Therefore, the present volume offers – based on a conclusive contextual analysis of the archaeological record – a reliable archaeological impression of archaic Ephesus beyond the sanctuary of Artemis.