Guzana - Guzana

Japanese: グザナ - ぐざな
Guzana - Guzana

...This pottery is a magnificent work that is considered the pinnacle of West Asian pottery. The main part of the ruins is the ancient walled city of Guzana, where the palace of the Aramaean prince Kapar was built around 900 BC. When digging deep into the ruins in connection with the investigation of the palace ruins, a large number of new types of painted pottery were unearthed, which was later named Halaf pottery, but the details of the remains are unknown, and it was only through stratigraphic excavations at other ruins that it was possible to place the period as part of the prehistoric culture of northern Mesopotamia, as the Hassuna period (-Samarra period) - Halaf period - Ubaid period.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Guzan" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…この土器は西アジア陶芸の白眉とされるすばらしいものである。遺跡の主体は城壁をめぐらした古代都市グザナGuzanaで,アラム王国の王子カパラの前900年ころの宮殿があった。宮殿跡の調査に関連して深く掘り下げたとき,新型式の多数の彩文土器が出土したことから,のちにハラフ式土器と命名されたが,遺構の詳細は不明で,北部メソポタミア先史文化のなかに,ハッスナ期(―サーマッラー期)―ハラフ期―ウバイド期として位置づけることができたのは,他の遺跡における層位的発掘であった。…

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