The pottery of the Early Iron Age to the Hellenistic Period

This chapter presents the results of the study of the pottery collected during the urban, rural and rural site survey at ancient Hyettos that has been dated between the Early Iron Age and the end of the Hel-lenistic period.1 Neither the beginning nor the end of this period can be defined precisely, as early Early Iron Age material is rare and not very diagnostic, and the transition from the Hellenistic to the Roman period was a gradual process in ceramic terms. In practice, almost all the material discussed here dates between c. 900 bc, and c. 50 bc. The exceptions are formed by small groups of material with a longer date range, starting in the (Late) Bronze Age or extending into the Roman period, but also overlapping with the era covered by this chapter. We have included this material, cautiously, where it seems to fill gaps in the more precisely dated assemblage, or contributes to the interpretation of chronological developments.