COMMON WARE
Bowls
| IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 11TR24U25pot02 |
| KERKENES INVENTORY: none |
| CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Common Wares |
| TYPE: Bowl |
| ITEM: Dish |
| MATERIAL: Clay |
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| Drawing by Dominique Langis-Barsetti and Ben Claasz Coockson. |
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DESCRIPTION Dish, wheelmade, pale brown gritty ware; red slipped and burnished apart from the centre of the interior which was left plain. Incomplete. |
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DIMENSIONS Diameter: 17 cm. |
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CONTEXT Cappadocia Gate, below floor of Room 1. |
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PUBLICATION Summers, Cappadocia Gate, Chicago: OIP in press. |
| IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 10TR25U12pot01 |
| KERKENES INVENTORY: none |
| CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Common Wares |
| TYPE: Bowl |
| ITEM: Bowl with simple rim |
| MATERIAL: Clay |
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| Drawing by Dominique Langis-Barsetti and Ben Claasz Coockson. |
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DESCRIPTION Shallow buff bowl with simple rim. Wheelmade, soft fabric with some grit and vegetal temper. |
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DIMENSIONS Diameter: 26 cm. |
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CONTEXT Cappadocia Gate, from the glacis core. |
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PUBLICATION Summers, Cappadocia Gate, Chicago: OIP in press. |
| IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 10TR25U12pot02 |
| KERKENES INVENTORY: none |
| CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Common Wares |
| TYPE: Bowl |
| ITEM: Bowl with simple rim |
| MATERIAL: Clay |
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| Drawing by Dominique Langis-Barsetti and Ben Claasz Coockson. |
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DESCRIPTION Shallow bowl with simple rim. Wheelmade, soft fabric with some grit and vegetal temper, pale red with a buff core, its plain surfaces being pale grey inside and mottled outside. |
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DIMENSIONS Diameter: 27 cm. |
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CONTEXT Cappadocia Gate, from the glacis core. |
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PUBLICATION Summers, Cappadocia Gate, Chicago: OIP in press. |
| IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 11TR24U04pot01 |
| KERKENES INVENTORY: none |
| CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Common Wares |
| TYPE: Bowl |
| ITEM: Bowl with flat base |
| MATERIAL: Clay |
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| Drawing by Dominique Langis-Barsetti and Ben Claasz Coockson. |
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DESCRIPTION Simple bowl with flat base, grey ware, grit temper, slipped and burnished. Approximately half of the vessel is preserved. |
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DIMENSIONS Diameter: 22.5 cm. |
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CONTEXT Cappadocia Gate, below floor of Room 1. |
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PUBLICATION Summers, Cappadocia Gate, Chicago: OIP in press. |
| IDENTIFICATION NUMBER:00CT23U02pot01 |
| KERKENES INVENTORY: K00.094 and Yozgat Museum 1573 |
| CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Common Wares |
| TYPE: Bowl |
| ITEM: Tripod bowl |
| MATERIAL: Clay |
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| Photograph 05dpnk1111 by Murat Akar. Drawing by Isabelle Ruben. |
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DESCRIPTION Tripod bowl, about 40% assembled from 16 sherds, all but one of which could be joined. Handmade, grey to reddish brown fabric with much medium-sized grit temper. Uneven interior surface, grey and smoothed; exterior pale reddish-brown, grey towards rim perhaps due to secondary burning, smoothed, shaving marks on legs. |
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DIMENSIONS Height: varies from 15.8 to 16.5 cm; diameter: circa 30 cm. |
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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:Schmidt K 82, joining sherd 96ST04U01pot07 |
| KERKENES INVENTORY: Schmidt K 82, joining sherd K96.058 |
| CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Common Wares |
| TYPE: Bowl |
| ITEM: Bowl or dish, tripod-footed |
| MATERIAL: Clay |
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| Colour photograph 05dpnk1202 by Murat Akar. Black and white photograph from Schmidt 1929. |
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DESCRIPTION Shallow tripod-footed bowl or dish. Paste medium, grey. Surface inside, except for a narrow margin, concentric lines of circular punctation. Rest of vessel plain and polished. |
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DIMENSIONS Diameter: 17.2 cm; height: 5.3 cm; thickness of body: 09 cm. |
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CONTEXT Schmidt Test Trench 4, floor. Additional sherd found during cleaning in 1996. |
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PUBLICATION Schmidt AJSL 1929: K 82. |
Jar
| IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 03TR09U07pot01 |
| KERKENES INVENTORY: K03.155 |
| CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Common Wares |
| TYPE: Jar |
| ITEM: Jar with high rounded shoulder and flat base |
| MATERIAL: Clay |
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| Photograph 05dpnk1117 by Murat Akar. Pencil drawing by Burhan Süer. |
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DESCRIPTION Jar with high rounded shoulder and flat base, and everted rim (no handles). Soft orange fabric with much grit temper. Fugitive surfaces. Incomplete. |
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DIMENSIONS Diameter: 16 cm; height: 22 cm. |
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CONTEXT Lower City. Megaron Area. |
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Jugs
| IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 00CT23U02pot02 |
| KERKENES INVENTORY: K00.123 and Yozgat Museum 1574 |
| CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Common Wares |
| TYPE: Jug |
| ITEM: Jug with upright trough spout |
| MATERIAL: Clay |
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| Photograph 05dpnk1118 by Murat Akar. Drawing by Isabelle Ruben. |
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DESCRIPTION Jug with upright trough spout and high, round faceted handle. Almost complete. Wheel-made, orange-red with white grits, traces of dark red slip and burnish on exterior. Pot mark catalogue number 1, incised under handle. |
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DIMENSIONS Diameter of base: 10.5 cm; height to the top of handle: 28.5 cm. |
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CONTEXT Palatial Complex. |
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PUBLICATION Berndt-Ersöz, Pot mark catalogue number 1, in press. Summers, Palatial Complex, Chicago: OIP. |
| IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 00CT23U02pot05 |
| KERKENES INVENTORY: none |
| CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Common Wares |
| TYPE: Jug |
| ITEM: Jug, one-handled, with cut-away spout |
| MATERIAL: Clay |
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| Drawing by Judith Sellers. |
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DESCRIPTION One-handled jug with cut-away spout and neck plus small part of shoulder (two joining sherds). Handle scar on rim. Handmade. Fabric: orange, pale core, core of handle pale grey, sparse grit and burnt out inclusions, not highly fired. Interior: uneven with orange surface. Exterior: orange, patches remain of glossy, rust-coloured paint that once covered the entire surface. Scrape marks on shoulder to right of handle. Pot mark on shoulder, probably to the right of where the handle would have been. Incised after firing. |
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CONTEXT Palatial Complex, found between structures A and D. |
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PUBLICATION Berndt-Ersöz, Pot mark catalogue number 2, in press. Summers, Palatial Complex, Chicago: OIP. |
| IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 00CT23U02pot06 |
| KERKENES INVENTORY: none |
| CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Common Wares |
| TYPE: Jug |
| ITEM:Jug, one-handled |
| MATERIAL: Clay |
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| Drawing by Judith Sellers. |
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DESCRIPTION Large one-handled jug with cut-away spout and faceted vertical bar handle between rim and shoulder. A mark in the shape of a V and above three vertical lines was incised on the shoulder, immediately on the right side of the handle, after firing. Handmade. Fabric: orange, pale core, core of handle pale grey, sparse grit and burnt out inclusions, not highly fired. Interior: uneven with orange surface. Exterior: orange, patches remain of glossy, rust-coloured paint. |
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CONTEXT Palatial Complex, found between structures A and D. |
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PUBLICATION Berndt-Ersöz, Pot mark catalogue number 2, in press. Summers, Palatial Complex, Chicago: OIP. |
| IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 05TR15U15pot01 |
| KERKENES INVENTORY: none |
| CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Common Wares |
| TYPE: Jug |
| ITEM: Jug with cut-away spout |
| MATERIAL: Clay |
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| Photograph 05dpnc2120 by Geoffrey D. Summers. |
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DESCRIPTION Jug with cut-away spout. Slipped and burnished. Burnt after breakage, fabric and surface colour altered by secondary burning. |
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CONTEXT Palatial Complex, Monumental Entrance. |
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PUBLICATION Kealhofer et al. 2010: Fig 4; 2f. Summers, Palatial Complex, forthcoming. |
| IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: Schmidt K 84 |
| KERKENES INVENTORY: Schmidt K 84 |
| CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Common Wares |
| TYPE: Jug |
| ITEM: Jug with cut-away spout |
| MATERIAL: Clay |
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| Photograph from Schmidt 1929. |
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DESCRIPTION Jug with cut-away spout, the one high-curved handle with oval cross section extends from shoulder to lip. |
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DIMENSIONS Diameter of body: 24 cm; extant height: 26.5 cm. |
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CONTEXT Schmidt Test Trench 4, floor. |
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PUBLICATION Schmidt AJSL 1929: K 84. |
| IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: Schmidt K 116 |
| KERKENES INVENTORY: Schmidt K116 |
| CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Common Wares |
| TYPE: Jug |
| ITEM: Jug with cut-away spout |
| MATERIAL: Clay |
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| Photograph from Schmidt 1929. |
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DESCRIPTION Jug with cut-away spout, the one high-curved handle, almost rectangular in cross-section, extends from upper body tolip. Paste medium, light brown, with stone particles. Surface light buff brown inside and out; wheelmarks on interior. |
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DIMENSIONS Diameter of body: 20.6 cm; extant height: 23.5 cm. |
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CONTEXT Schmidt Test Trench 8, floor. |
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PUBLICATION Schmidt AJSL 1929: K 84. |
| IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 04TR14U21pot01 new |
| KERKENES INVENTORY: K04.181 |
| CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Common Wares |
| TYPE: Jug |
| ITEM: Jug |
| MATERIAL: Ceramic |
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| No photo and drawing |
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DESCRIPTION Trefoil jug, partially recomposed, and other associated fragments. The rim is mostly reconstructed. Width of mouth: c. 108 mm |
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DIMENSIONS Width: 108 mm (mouth) |
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| IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 00CT23U02pot04 new |
| KERKENES INVENTORY: none |
| CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Common Wares |
| TYPE: Jug |
| ITEM: Large one-handled jug |
| MATERIAL: Ceramic |
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| Drawing by Judith Sellers. |
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DESCRIPTION Large, one-handled jug with cut-away spout. Faceted, vertical bar handle from rim to shoulder. Complete rim to shoulder profile in 11 joining sherds. Handmade, probably very similar to cat. no. 1 but with cream color surface beneath rust-colored paint, not illustrated. Incised after firing on shoulder. The mark is like a double mark. The first mark resembles Δ while the second joining mark consist of a vertical line with a curved short tail extending from its upper part and a triangle at the bottom part. |
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CONTEXT Found between Structures A and D. |
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Craters
| IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: Schmidt K 104 |
| KERKENES INVENTORY: Schmidt K 104 |
| CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Common Wares |
| TYPE: Crater |
| ITEM: Crater with two flat handles. |
| MATERIAL: Clay |
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| Photograph from Schmidt 1929. |
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DESCRIPTION Crater. Two flat handles with margins slightly raised on outer surface. Bottom flat. Paste medium, red-brown. Surface outside may once have been covered with a light grey wash, but now for the most part the rough brown-buff base is visible; faint wheelmarks below rim. Interior brown-buff. |
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DIMENSIONS Diameter: 37.2 cm; diameter of base: 36.5 cm; height: 36.3 cm. |
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CONTEXT Schmidt Test Trench 4, floor. |
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PUBLICATION Schmidt AJSL 1929: K 82. |
| IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 00CT23U02pot03 |
| KERKENES INVENTORY: none |
| CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Common Wares |
| TYPE: Crater |
| ITEM: Crater with rounded base and two vertical strap handles |
| MATERIAL: Clay |
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| Photograph 01dpol2901 by David Stronach. Drawing by Judith Sellers. |
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DESCRIPTION Crater with rounded base and two vertical strap handles, only one of which is extant, attached to the centre of the neck and upper shoulder, flared rim with internal ledge; hand-made. Orange fabric with sparse grits and burnt out inclusions, not highly fired. Interior orange, smoothed neck below which the body wall is very uneven with irregular striations from wiping, perhaps with straw, on the lower portion. Exterior pale yellowish brown, well smoothed. A graffito was scratched on the handle. |
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DIMENSIONS Diameter: 35 cm. |
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CONTEXT Palatial Complex, between Structures A and D. |
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PUBLICATION Berndt-Ersöz, Pot mark catalogue number 5, in press. Summers, Palatial Complex, Chicago: OIP. |
Funnel
| IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 00CT15U05pot01 |
| KERKENES INVENTORY: K00.088 |
| CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Common Wares |
| TYPE: Funnel |
| ITEM: Funnel |
| MATERIAL: Clay |
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| Photograph 05dpnk1114 by Murat Akar. Drawing by Isabelle Ruben. |
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DESCRIPTION Funnel, probably handmade, soft fabric without visible temper, but some fine grit inclusions. The surface is buff through greenish grey, vertical smoothing marks can be seen on the spout, horizontal ones on the exterior of the main body, finished with a high brownish-red burnish. Reddish-brown paint on the interior and exterior of the rim, perhaps dipped. A mark, X, was lightly incised on the interior of the body after firing. |
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DIMENSIONS Height: 16 cm; diameter of rim: 22 cm. |
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CONTEXT Palatial Complex. Structure C, on the floor of the North Room. |
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PUBLICATION Berndt-Ersöz, Pot mark catalogue number 8, in press. Summers, Palatial Complex, Chicago: OIP. |
Miniature Vessels
| IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 03TR07U05pot01 |
| KERKENES INVENTORY: K03.151 |
| CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Common Wares |
| TYPE: Miniature Vessel |
| ITEM: Small jar |
| MATERIAL: Clay |
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| Photograph 05dpnk1212 by Murat Akar. Drawing by Burhan Süer. |
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DESCRIPTION Small jar with flat base and out-turned rim, perhaps wheelmade. Core dark grey with fine white grits. Surface of exterior was originally grey or black and burnished. Now coated with a brown patina. Surface of interior also now covered with a patchy brown film. |
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DIMENSIONS Diameter: 7 cm, height: 5.5 cm. |
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CONTEXT Lower City. Megaron Area, NW corner of Room A, room fill close to floor. |
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PUBLICATION Summers, Summers and Branting 2004: p. 35; figs 29a and 30. |
| IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 11TR24U19pot02 |
| KERKENES INVENTORY: K11.277 |
| CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Common Wares |
| TYPE: Miniature Vessel |
| ITEM: Small jar |
| MATERIAL: Clay |
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| Photograph 11dpcc0674 by Kerkenes. Drawing by Dominique Langis-Barsetti and Ben Claasz Coockson. |
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DESCRIPTION Small jar with flat base, wheelmade, micaceous buff ware, smoothed exterior. Part of rim missing. |
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DIMENSIONS Height: 5.2 cm; diameter: 3.95 cm. |
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CONTEXT Burning in central passage, rear section of the gate. |
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PUBLICATION Summers, Cappadocia Gate, Chicago: OIP in press. |
| IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 11TR24U19pot01 |
| KERKENES INVENTORY: K11.276 |
| CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Common Wares |
| TYPE: Miniature Vessel |
| ITEM: Small jar |
| MATERIAL: Clay |
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| Photograph by 11dpkc3245 by Kerkenes. Drawing by Dominique Langis-Barsetti and Ben Claasz Coockson. |
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DESCRIPTION Small jar with flat base and two double-horned lugs |
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DIMENSIONS Height: 8.2 cm; diameter: 6 cm. |
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CONTEXT Cappadocia Gate. Burning in central passage, rear section of the gate. |
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PUBLICATION Summers, Cappadocia Gate, Chicago: OIP in press. |
Lids
| IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 03TR07U05pot03 |
| KERKENES INVENTORY: K03.153 and Yozgat Museum 1572 |
| CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Common Wares |
| TYPE: Lid |
| ITEM: Domed lid |
| MATERIAL: Clay |
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| Photograph 05dpnk1112 by Murat Akar. Drawing by Burhan Süer. |
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DESCRIPTION Domed lid or cover with loop handle, complete. Handle is round in section. Fabric grey with much fine grit temper. Patchy brown burnished surfaces, abraded. |
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DIMENSIONS Diameter: 22.5 cm; height: 8.3 cm. |
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CONTEXT Lower City. |
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PUBLICATION Summers, Summers and Branting 2004: p. 35; figs 29d and 32. |
| IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 03TR07U09pot01 |
| KERKENES INVENTORY: K03.152 and Yozgat Museum 1571 |
| CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Common Wares |
| TYPE: Lid |
| ITEM: Small domed lid or cover with loop handle |
| MATERIAL: Clay |
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| Photograph 05dpnk1113 by Murat Akar. Drawing by Burhan Süer. |
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DESCRIPTION Small domed lid or cover with loop handle, almost complete; restored. Lacking part of handle which is round in section. Fabric dark grey with much fine grit temper. Inside surface patchy brown slip, burnished. Surface brown, abraded, probably once slipped and burnished. |
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DIMENSIONS Diameter: 14.5 cm; height: 6 cm. |
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CONTEXT Lower City. Megaron Area, in fill of Structure C, Room 2. |
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PUBLICATION Summers, Summers and Branting 2004: p. 35; figs 29c and 33. |
| IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 03TR07U05pot04 |
| KERKENES INVENTORY: none |
| CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Common Wares |
| TYPE: Lid |
| ITEM: Lid with loop handle |
| MATERIAL: Clay |
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| Photograph 05dpnk1220 by Murat Akar. |
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DESCRIPTION Lid with loop handle, incomplete. Fabric dark grey with much fine grit temper. Inside surface patchy brown slip, burnished. Surface brown, abraded, probably once slipped and burnished. |
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DIMENSIONS Diameter: circa 21 cm. |
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CONTEXT Lower City. Megaron Area, Structure C, fill of Room 1. |
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PUBLICATION Summers, Summers and Branting 2004: p. 35. |
| IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 03TR07U05pot05 |
| KERKENES INVENTORY: none |
| CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Common Wares |
| TYPE: Lid |
| ITEM: Lid with loop handle, incomplete |
| MATERIAL: Clay |
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| Photograph 05dpnk1221 by Murat Akar. |
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DESCRIPTION Lid with loop handle, incomplete. Fabric dark grey with much fine grit temper. Inside surface patchy brown slip, burnished. Surface brown, abraded, probably once slipped and burnished. |
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DIMENSIONS Diameter: circa 14 cm. |
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CONTEXT Lower City. Megaron Area, Structure C, fill of Room 1. |
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