COARSE WARES

Bowl

IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 00CT18U04pot04
KERKENES INVENTORY: K00.120 and Yozgat Museum 1567
CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Coarse Wares
TYPE: Bowl
ITEM: Large deep bowl with drop handles
MATERIAL: Clay
Photographs 05dpnk1214 by Murat Akar.
Drawing by Isabelle Ruben.
DESCRIPTION
Large deep bowl with drop handles. Handmade, built up from base in slabs or coils. Reddish buff, with much medium-sized granitic grit; interior variable in colour from pale grey through buff to reddish brown, smoothed; exterior surface spalled, smoothed; thick white "paint" on base, in two bands above base and around handles.
DIMENSIONS
Diameter 59 cm; height 22 to 23 cm.
CONTEXT
Palatial Complex. Structure C, floor of the south Room.
PUBLICATION
Summers, Palatial Complex, Chicago: OIP in press.

Lids

IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 00CT18U04pot02
KERKENES INVENTORY: K00.118 and Yozgat Museum 1518
CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Coarse Wares
TYPE: Lid
ITEM:Circular lid with bar handle
MATERIAL: Clay
Photograph 05dpnk1215 by Murat Akar.
Drawing by Isabelle Ruben.
DESCRIPTION
Heavy, flat, circular lid with a lightly faceted bar handle. Handmade coil construction, low-fired. Grey to buff, with much medium-sized granitic grit; underside with traces of coils visible, especially towards the edge, smoothed; top very smooth pale yellowy brown, blackened by fire. Mended from 90 sherds plus 20 fragments laminated off the underside.
DIMENSIONS
Diameter: 58.8 cm; average thickness: 2.5 cm.
CONTEXT
Palatial Complex. Structure C, floor of the South Room.
PUBLICATION
Summers, Palatial Complex, Chicago: OIP in press.

IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 00CT18U04pot03
KERKENES INVENTORY: K00.119 and Yozgat Museum 1569
CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Coarse Ware
TYPE: Lid
ITEM: Circular lid with handle
MATERIAL: Clay
Photograph 05dpnk1216 by Murat Akar.
Drawing by Isabelle Ruben.
DESCRIPTION
Thin, flat, circular lid with ridged bar handle. Handmade coil construction, low-fired. Reddish buff, with much medium-sized granitic grit; underside with traces of coils visible, especially towards the edge, smoothed; top smoothed, pale yellow to reddish brown, blackened by fire.
DIMENSIONS
Diameter: 50 cm; thickness: 1.4 to 1.8 cm.
CONTEXT
Palatial Complex. Structure C, floor of the South Room.
PUBLICATION
Summers, Palatial Complex, Chicago: OIP in press.

Drain

IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 96TT18U05pot01
KERKENES INVENTORY: K96.070
CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Coarse Wares
TYPE: Drain
ITEM: Tapering drain
MATERIAL: Clay
Photograph 05dpnk1406 by Murat Akar.
DESCRIPTION
Tapering drain semi-circular in section. Coarse, low-fired, very friable ceramic.
DIMENSIONS
Length: c. 50 cm.
CONTEXT
Lower City. Found in situ in Test Trench TT18.
PUBLICATION