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    Miletus ware is a type of pottery that was produced in various locations in Anatolia between the late 14th and mid 15th centuries. The pottery type was...
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    Iznik pottery (redirect from Isnik ware)
    German archaeologist Friedrich Sarre at Miletus on the western coast of Anatolia in the early 1930s. As Miletus had a long history as a pottery producing...
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    wearing away, 7th century BC, excavated at Mogador Island near Essaouira Miletus ware showing a red body covered by white slip, then painted in blue, c. 1400...
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    was produced in as early as the 15th century AD, and was preceded by Miletus ware from the same region. Its best period lasted until the late 16th century...
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    Alâeddin Mosque, 13th century Al-Nasir Muhammad Qur'an. Cairo, 1313–1314 Miletus ware, 15th century Mihrab candlestick made for sultan Bayezid II, c. 1488...
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    respectively of Lydians and Mysians and all sons of Atys. Homer records that Miletus (later an Ionian city), together with the mountain of Phthries, the river...
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    it is widespread over all of Asia Minor, with centers of production at Miletus and Chios. Two forms prevail oenochoes, which copied bronze models, and...
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    Ovid. Metamorphoses, 12.1. Hecataeus of Miletus & Klausen 1831, Fragment 224 (p. 140). Hecataeus of Miletus & Klausen 1831, Fragment 375 (p. 157). Mentioned...
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    are earlier, 1390/1370 to 1360/1325 BC; but LHIIIA:2 ware also exists in a burn layer of Miletus which likely occurred early in the reign of Mursili II...
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    Apollo at Didyma, situated twenty kilometers from Miletus in Ionia. It was designed by Daphnis of Miletus and Paionios of Ephesus at the end of the fourth...
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    Tan Ware and Anatolian Gray Ware. Both styles were offshoots of an earlier Middle Helladic tradition related to Minyan Ware. The earliest gray ware at...
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    movement from mainland Greece to the Anatolian coast to such sites as Miletus, Ephesus, and Colophon, perhaps as early as 1000 BC, but contemporaneous...
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  • of the Cretans, who founded, among other places, Miletus, having taken Sarpedon from the Cretan Miletus as founder; and they settled the Termilae in the...
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    Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey, by Anthemius of Tralles or Isidore of Miletus, 6th century Romanesque egg-and-dart on a capital from the Collegiate Church...
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    Oasis Polis (Egypt). The trade caused them to become bitter rivals with Miletus. Samos was able to become so prominent despite the growing power of the...
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    Milesian tyrants, Histiaeus and Aristagoras. In 499 BC, the then-tyrant of Miletus, Aristagoras, launched a joint expedition with the Persian satrap Artaphernes...
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    New Testament in the Book of Acts. In the 6th century BC, Hecataeus of Miletus affirms that Phoenicia was formerly called χνα, a name that Philo of Byblos...
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  • language is from a fragment attributed to Greek historian Hecataeus of Miletus,[citation needed] which in some sources is dated to prior to the Behistun...
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    writers who described the hair of the Thracians as red include Hecataeus of Miletus, Galen, Clement of Alexandria, and Julius Firmicus Maternus. Nevertheless...
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    Mycenaean pottery reaching the western coast of Asia Minor, including Miletus and Troy, Cyprus, Lebanon, Palestine and Egypt. Early Mycenaean civilization...
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    Athens manufactured a special type of bowl for the city, known as Kerch ware. Local potters imitated the Hellenistic bowls known as the Gnathia style...
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    is actually known of the Mushki's religious convictions. Hecataeus of Miletus (c. 550 – 476 BC) speaks of the Moschi as "Colchians", situated next to...
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    6th century BC, in the works of the ancient Greek writer Hecataeus of Miletus. The name "Illyrians", as applied by the ancient Greeks to their northern...
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    Helladic EH IIB at Argolis, Early Minoan EM IIB in Crete, Period II at Miletus, Period V at Koukonisi, the Yellow period at Poliochne, and Period IIg-III...
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    adopted the potter's wheel during MM IB, producing wares such as Kamares ware. MM II (c. 1875–1700 BC) saw the development of the Minoan writing systems...
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    Melampagos Meloukome Metropolis in Lydia Metropolis in southern Phrygia Miletus Mylasa Mobolla Mokolda Mossyna Mostene Motella Myloukome Myndus Myrina...
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    States (Isuwa, Kizzuwatna, Mitanni) Kalašma Kaskia Kussara Lukka Luwia Miletus Mira Mysia Nairi Pala Pisidia/Sagalassos Purushanda Seha Shupria Urshu...
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    been identified as corresponding in part to the Northern Black Polished Ware culture. The term "Janapada" literally means the foothold of a people. The...
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    centuries BC. By the Hellenistic period, authors such as Hecataeus of Miletus however sometimes extended the designation "Scythians" indiscriminately...
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    perhaps the earliest reference being a fragment attributed to Hecataeus of Miletus (476 BC). Xenophon, a Greek general serving in some of the Persian expeditions...
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