FINE WARES
Painted Fine Wares
| IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 09SURFU00pot02 |
| KERKENES INVENTORY: none |
| CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Fine Wares |
| TYPE: Painted Fine Ware |
| ITEM: Joining sherds with painted decoration |
| MATERIAL: Clay |
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| Photograph 10dpkc1215 by Joseph Lehner. |
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DESCRIPTION Four joining body sherds from a closed vessel. White ground in two bands or panels with running geometric pattern in bichrome red and very dark red paint. |
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CONTEXT Surface find. |
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| IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 05TR21U01pot01 |
| KERKENES INVENTORY: none |
| CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Fine Wares |
| TYPE: Painted Fine Ware |
| ITEM: Sherd with painted decoration |
| MATERIAL: Clay |
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| Photograph 12dpnd1002 by Geoffrey D. Summers. |
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DESCRIPTION Sherd from a small, footed vessel. Fine paste, outside cream slipped with geometric design in dark paint, polished. Undated. |
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CONTEXT Palatial Complex. Topsoil. |
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Incised Black Polished
| IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 02TR03U05pot01 |
| KERKENES INVENTORY: K02.144 |
| CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Fine Wares |
| TYPE: Incised Black Polished |
| ITEM: Juglet with cut-away spout |
| MATERIAL: Clay |
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| Photograph 05dpnk1110 by Murat Akar. Drawing by Judith Sellers. |
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DESCRIPTION Juglet with cut-away spout, concave disc base and strap handle from rim to belly. Largely complete but most of handle missing. Wheelmade with interior marks especially at base. Fine, soft, light grey paste with no visible temper. Grey to black slip, burnished to high polish. Band of lightly incised panels filled with crosses divided by narrower panel with double vertical lines. Vertical panel filled with lattice decoration on handle stub. Restored from many fragments. |
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DIMENSIONS Diameter of base: 5.2 cm; height: 14.4 cm. |
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CONTEXT Cappadocia Gate, erosion gully on the southwest side of the gate passage in trench TR03. |
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PUBLICATION Summers, Cappadocia Gate, Chicago: OIP in press. |
Black Polished Faceted Wares
| IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 00CT23U02pot07 |
| KERKENES INVENTORY: none |
| CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Fine Wares |
| TYPE: Black Polished Faceted Ware |
| ITEM: Sherds with faceted decoration |
| MATERIAL: Clay |
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| Photograph 17dpkc0103 by Joseph Lehner. Drawing by Judith Sellers. |
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DESCRIPTION Sherd from a small closed vessel with faceted decoration, fine black-slipped and burnished. A band of panels, containing raised faceted lozenges divided by groups of four vertical incised lines and narrow blank spaces, runs around the belly of the vessel. |
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CONTEXT Summers, Palatial Complex, Chicago: OIP in press. |
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PUBLICATION Summers, Palatial Complex, forthcoming. |
| IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 00CT23U02pot08 |
| KERKENES INVENTORY: none |
| CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Fine Wares |
| TYPE: Black Polished Faceted Ware |
| ITEM: Sherds with faceted decoration |
| MATERIAL: Clay |
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| Photograph 17dpkc0106 by Joseph Lehner. Drawing by Judith Sellers. |
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DESCRIPTION Two joining sherds from a small closed vessel with faceted decoration, fine black-slipped and burnished. A band of panels, containing raised faceted lozenges divided by groups of four vertical incised lines and narrow blanks spaces, runs around the belly of the vessel. |
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CONTEXT Palatial Complex, between Structures A and D. |
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PUBLICATION Summers, Palatial Complex, Chicago: OIP in press. |
| IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 00CT18U17pot01 |
| KERKENES INVENTORY: K00.093 |
| CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Fine Wares |
| TYPE: Black Polished Faceted Ware |
| ITEM: Sherd of black-polished wares |
| MATERIAL: Clay |
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| Photograph 05dpnk1102 by Murat Akar. Drawing by Isabelle Ruben. |
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DESCRIPTION Sherd of black polished ware from a closed wheelmade vessel; fine grey fabric, exterior black slipped and polished. Patterning comprises a band of wide and narrow panels framed by a single incised line at the top and sets of four parallel vertical lines. The preserved portion of a wide panel contains the upper portion of a raised lozenge framed by four incised lines. |
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CONTEXT Palatial Complex, behind Structure A. |
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PUBLICATION Summers, Palatial Complex, Chicago: OIP in press. |
| IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 02TR04U03pot01 |
| KERKENES INVENTORY: none |
| CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Fine Wares |
| TYPE: Black Polished Faceted Ware |
| ITEM: Sherd with polished faceted decoration |
| MATERIAL: Clay |
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| Photograph 18dpkc0101 by Joseph Lehner. Drawing by Ben Claasz Coockson. |
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DESCRIPTION Single small sherd from a black slipped and burnished juglet embellished with a panel containing faceted lozenges. |
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DIMENSIONS Maximum 4 cm. |
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CONTEXT Cappadocia Gate. Debris against the back of the North Tower. |
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PUBLICATION Summers, Cappadocia Gate, Chicago: OIP in press. |
Miscellaneous
| IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 04TR14U02pot01 |
| KERKENES INVENTORY: K04.180 |
| CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Fine Wares |
| TYPE: Miscellaneous |
| ITEM: Sherd with moulded or incised decoration |
| MATERIAL: Clay |
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| Photograph 05dpnk1222 by Murat Akar. |
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DESCRIPTION Sherd with moulded or incised decoration from a cream-coloured pottery vessel. Part of a leaf moulding. |
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DIMENSIONS Diameter of body: 29.5 cm; height: 32 cm. |
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CONTEXT Palatial Complex. Unstratified. |
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PUBLICATION Summers, Palatial Complex, Chicago: OIP in press. |
Sieve Spout
| IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 00CT16U14pot01 |
| KERKENES INVENTORY: K00.090 |
| CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Fine Wares |
| TYPE: Sieve Spout |
| ITEM: Trough spout with a sieve |
| MATERIAL: Clay |
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| Photograph 05dpnk1107 by Murat Akar. |
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DESCRIPTION Trough spout with a sieve. The top of the strainer is shielded by a horizontal ledge. Fine dark grey, slipped and burnished, with perhaps a trace of incision below spout. |
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CONTEXT Palatial Complex, behind Structure A. |
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PUBLICATION Summers, Palatial Complex, Chicago: OIP in press. |
Bowls
| IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 04TR11U22pot01 |
| KERKENES INVENTORY: K04.179 |
| CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Fine Wares |
| TYPE: Bowl |
| ITEM: Bowl with alphabetic graffito |
| MATERIAL: Clay |
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| Photograph 04dpcs2108 by Catherine M. Draycott. |
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DESCRIPTION Fragments of a pottery bowl, some joining, with a disc foot. Altered by fire after breakage, original colour and hardness uncertain. Slipped and burnished. The underside of the foot carries a Phrygian alphabetic graffito incised after firing. |
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DIMENSIONS Diameter: 16 cm; diameter of foot: c. 6 cm. Letter height: 0.40 cm. |
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CONTEXT Palatial Complex. Monumental Entrance. |
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PUBLICATION Brixhe and Summers 2006, 133, fig. 35. Berndt-Ersöz, Pot mark catalogue number 17, in press. Summers, Palatial Complex, Chicago: OIP in press. |
| IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 04TR16U16pot01, joining fragments from 05TR16U17 and 05TR17U12 |
| KERKENES INVENTORY: K05.214 and Yozgat Museum 1570 |
| CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Fine Wares |
| TYPE: Bowl |
| ITEM: Bowl with graffiti |
| MATERIAL: Clay |
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| Photograph 08dpkc2218 and 08dpkc2219 by Noël Siver. |
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DESCRIPTION Carinated bowl with everted rim and concave disc base. Fine vegetal inclusions and occasional white grit. Original surface colour uncertain. Grey core. Burnished silver-grey surface with some brown fragments. Presumably wheelmade. Three crosses were incised on the underside after firing. One is under the base, the other two on either side of the base. The cross on the right side has two faint additional lines across the vertical line. |
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DIMENSIONS Diameter: 21 cm; height: 5.5 cm. |
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CONTEXT Palatial Complex. Monumental Entrance. |
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PUBLICATION Berndt-Ersöz, Pot mark catalogue number 14, in press. Summers, Palatial Complex, forthcoming. |
| IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 04TR11U14pot02 |
| KERKENES INVENTORY: K04.178 |
| CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Fine Wares |
| TYPE: Bowl |
| ITEM: Bowl |
| MATERIAL: Ceramic |
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| Photograph 04dpcs2107 |
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DESCRIPTION Profile of a shallow bowl with turned foot - fineware. |
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Juglets
| IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 00TT22U06pot01 |
| KERKENES INVENTORY: K00.085 and Yozgat Museum 1577 |
| CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Fine Wares |
| TYPE: Juglet |
| ITEM: Juglet with raised spout |
| MATERIAL: Clay |
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| Photograph 05dpnk1108 by Murat Akar. Drawing by Isabelle Ruben. |
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DESCRIPTION Juglet with raised spout, flat base, and slightly faceted handle that is almost round in section. Handmade, soft fabric, well-levigated, no visible temper. The surface is very pale grey with a large area of the spout and a patch at the back of the neck black. Burnished to a good polish. Almost complete, mended, covered with brown sediment that is harder than the fabric. |
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DIMENSIONS Height: 13 cm. |
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CONTEXT Palatial Complex. Audience Hall. |
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PUBLICATION Summers, Palatial Complex, Chicago: OIP in press. |
| IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 00CT15U03pot01 |
| KERKENES INVENTORY: K00.086 and Yozgat Museum 1578 |
| CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Fine Wares |
| TYPE: Juglet |
| ITEM: Juglet, side-spouted |
| MATERIAL: Clay |
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| Photograph 05dpnk1101 by Murat Akar. Drawing by Isabelle Ruben. |
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DESCRIPTION Side-spouted juglet with flat base and high strap handle. Handmade, soft, well-levigated fabric without visible temper. The mottled surface is buff through pale brown to pale reddish brown with a large black area opposite the spout. Large areas retain a high burnish, but the surface is almost entirely covered with brown sediment that is harder than the fabric. Mended, complete. |
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DIMENSIONS Height: 13.6 cm; diameter of base: 5.8 cm. |
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CONTEXT Palatial Complex. Structure C, floor of the North Room. |
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PUBLICATION Summers, Palatial Complex, Chicago: OIP in press. |
| IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 00CT18U04pot01 |
| KERKENES INVENTORY: K00.087 and Yozgat Museum 1575 |
| CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Fine Wares |
| TYPE: Juglet |
| ITEM: Juglet, spouted |
| MATERIAL: Clay |
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| Photograph 05dpnk1109 by Murat Akar. Drawing by Isabelle Ruben. |
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DESCRIPTION Juglet, spouted, with flat base and high strap handle. Handmade, soft, well-levigated fabric without visible temper. The mottled surface is buff through pale brown to grey. Large areas retain a high burnish, but the surface is almost entirely covered with brown sediment that is harder than the fabric. Mended, complete. |
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DIMENSIONS Height: 11.9 cm; diameter of base: 5.7 cm. |
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CONTEXT Palatial Complex. Structure C, floor of the South Room. |
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PUBLICATION Summers, Palatial Complex, Chicago: OIP in press. |
| IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 98TT20U10pot01 |
| KERKENES INVENTORY: K98.072 |
| CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Fine Wares |
| TYPE: Juglet |
| ITEM: Juglet with wide trefoil mouth |
| MATERIAL: Clay |
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| Photograph 08dpkc1161. Drawing by Kerkenes. |
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DESCRIPTION Squat, flat-based juglet with wide trefoil mouth, high strap handle. Surface brown-grey, smoothed and burnished, fine white grit temper and some vegetal. Reddish-brown patch where burnt. |
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DIMENSIONS Diameter of base: 10 cm; max: 17 cm; neck: 8 cm; mouth: 10 cm. Height: 17 cm. |
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CONTEXT Lower City, North End, in fill of small room in row above the hall. |
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