Ein Hemmoorer Eimer in Miniaturformat aus Doliche (TR): ein unerwarteter Fund

Abstract

A Miniature Hemmoor Bucket from Doliche (TR): An Unexpected Find

On the edge of the excavations in Doliche on the Keber Tepe, located in the Syrian-Turkish border region near Gaziantep, three objects were found that had presumably been recovered and left behind undocumented during illegal excavations. These were an iron pickaxe, a Roman stone mixing tablet and a Roman bronze vessel. The latter can be identified as a miniature form of a Hemmoor bucket. Such buckets are mainly known from the central and eastern European Barbaricum and the neighbouring north-western and Danube provinces; miniatures are extremely rare. The find from Doliche, together with an example from Juliopolis which was discovered 700 km to the west, marks the easternmost distribution of these buckets, which correspond to the Hemmoor type.