ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the analysis of some different ceramic types in order to establish a connection between identity and material culture within a regional context influenced by the internal mobility of people and ideas. Mobility in the ancient world originated long before agriculture, the development of complex forms of social aggregation and the formation of the territorial empires. The chapter seeks to assess a preliminary analysis of the objects’ mobility in a peculiar regional context, that of northern Mesopotamia, which has been inexplicably neglected in modern scholarship. The mobility of people and objects should be declined along two different lines of investigation: that which looks at internal mobility/circulation and that which pertains to the external impulses to mobility. The chapter analyses some examples of specific ceramics in order to delineate the impact of the local fashions and the coexistence of different identities as reflected in the production, distribution and consumption of pottery.
