Abstract
This monograph is discusses and analyses pottery of Early and Middle subperiod of Troy VI (ca. 1750-1400 BCE), uncovered during 1988-20012 excavations - based on 30.000 fragments. Pottery is unavoidably related also with stratigraphy, so the relevant excavations by Schliemann, Dörpfeld, Blegen and Korfmann also had to be analysed anew.
This is directly related to another aim of the work, to connect the old and new excavation-results, as well as to connect the results from the citadel and from the so called lower town. This has been made possible by a new definition of 4 ceramic phases of Troy VI, complemented by new analysis of the exiting C14 dates.
It was the more precise periodisation which enabled a better understanding of the local development at Troy, but also its better anchoring the the wider Aegean and Anatolian worlds.