PAINTED

Jar

IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: Schmidt K 85
KERKENES INVENTORY: Schmidt K 85
CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Painted
TYPE: Jar
ITEM: Two-handled jar
MATERIAL: Clay
Photograph from Schmidt 1929.
DESCRIPTION
Two-handled jar with everted rim. Handles on opposite sides of upper body are flat with slightly depressed center. Bottom flat. Paste medium, grey-brown. Surface outside light brown with light grey and light buff stains; wheel marks at neck. Inside coated with grey. Decorated around neck with a red-brown line over a dark brown zigzag line within borders of the same colour. On upper body two panels almost identically decorated with horizontal lines are separated by the handles. In one panel 13 lines are present: from top downward, 6 red-brown, 3 dark brown, 4 red-brown; the opposite panel contains 14 lines: 7 red-brown, 4 dark brown, 3 red-brown. Red-brown stains on the handles suggest that they too were decorated. The design is crude, the lines not well drawn.
DIMENSIONS
Diameter: 9.6 cm.
Height: 13 cm.
CONTEXT
Schmidt Test Trench 4, floor.
PUBLICATION
Schmidt AJSL 1929: K 85.

Jugs

IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 11TR24U03pot01
KERKENES INVENTORY: none
CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Painted
TYPE: Jug
ITEM: Jug with cut-away spout
MATERIAL: Clay
Photograph 11dpkc3801 by Noël Siver.
Drawing by Ben Claasz Coockson.
DESCRIPTION
Jug with cut-away spout and round handle attached to the rim and shoulder. Wheelmade. Brownish-orange fabric with, where thick, a brownish core; grey and white grit, and fine vegetal temper. A single panel, extending around the shoulder from either side of the handle, is made of a cream or white ground outlined and divided into two horizontal registers in red paint. Horizontal lines in dark purplish paint divide the upper register into two, the lower into three. The entire external surface is finely burnished, and there is some spalling.
DIMENSIONS
Maximum diameter of neck: 8 cm.
CONTEXT
Cappadocia Gate, collapsed core of stone walling.
PUBLICATION
Summers, Cappadocia Gate, Chicago: OIP in press.

IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: Schmidt K 83
KERKENES INVENTORY: Schmidt K 83
CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Painted
TYPE: Jug
ITEM: Jug with one handle
MATERIAL: Clay
Photograph from Schmidt 1929.
DESCRIPTION
Jug with one handle, with circular cross-section. Bottom flat, slightly concave. Paste medium, light brown. Surface outside reddish buff, smooth; inside light brown and grainy; wheel marks on upper body. Decorated with a greyish-black pigment of somewhat metallic lustre. Eight parallel lines, well drawn, encircle shoulder, but are terminated at each side of handle by two vertical lines. Below follows a band of oblique double lines forming a zigzag pattern, bordered below by four more parallel lines.
DIMENSIONS
Diameter of body: 40 cm. Extant height: 36 cm.
CONTEXT
Schmidt Test Trench 4, floor.
PUBLICATION
Schmidt AJSL 1929: K 83.

IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 97ST05U00pot01
KERKENES INVENTORY: K97.068
CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Painted
TYPE: Jug
ITEM: Closed vessel, probably a jug with a cut-away spout
MATERIAL: Clay
Photograph 05dpnk1208 by Murat Akar.
Drawing Isabelle Ruben.
DESCRIPTION
Closed vessel, probably a jug with a cut-away spout. Common grit-tempered ware. Patterning on the upper half of the vessel, poorly preserved, comprises a panel around the shoulder with geometric design in red and dark brown paint on a white ground, all over-burnished.
DIMENSIONS
Extant height: 32 cm; diameter of body: 29.5 cm.
CONTEXT
Schmidt Test Trench 5. Robbing.
PUBLICATION

Craters

IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 10TR22U01pot01
KERKENES INVENTORY: none
CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Painted
TYPE: Crater
ITEM: Sherds from the rim, neck, and shoulder of a large crater
MATERIAL: Clay
Drawing by Ben Claasz Coockson.
DESCRIPTION
Sherds from the rim, neck, and shoulder of a large crater. The surface of most sherds was poorly preserved, the patterning only being discernable on three sherds that were burnt in the destruction. Large crater, diameter not measurable, with slight seating for a lid inside the rim and an external bead below the rim. Part of one handle is extant. The soft fabric is pale red with a thick buff core containing both grit and vegetal temper. Patterning comprises a panel of white ground outlined with dark red to black paint, two parallel lines of which divide the panel into two horizontal registers. Each register contains compass-drawn concentric circles. The painting is competent but somewhat slapdash.
DIMENSIONS
Diameter not measurable.
CONTEXT
Cappadocia Gate. Found in the stone collapse from the Middle Tower that filled the Gate Court.
PUBLICATION
Summers, Cappadocia Gate, Chicago: OIP in press.

IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 11TR24U04pot02
KERKENES INVENTORY: none
CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Painted
TYPE: Crater
ITEM: Crater with seating for a lid inside the rim
MATERIAL: Clay
Photograph 11dpnd3408 by Geoffrey D. Summers.
Drawing by Dominique Langis-Barsetti and Ben Claasz Coockson.
DESCRIPTION
Crater with seating for a lid inside the rim and strap handles with polychrome, panelled decoration on the neck. Wheelmade, pale reddish brown, micaceous clay with some grit and vegetal temper; smoothed to a fine finish. A cream or white ground panel is bordered by plum-red paint. Three vertical stripes at the end of the panel and two compass-drawn concentric circle motifs are in dark brown paint.
DIMENSIONS
Diameter: 34 cm.
CONTEXT
Cappadocia Gate, below floor of Room 1.
PUBLICATION
Summers, Cappadocia Gate, Chicago: OIP in press.

Sherds

IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: Schmidt K 103
KERKENES INVENTORY: Schmidt K103
CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Painted
TYPE: Sherd
ITEM: Sherd with painted decoration
MATERIAL: Clay
Drawing from Schmidt 1929.
DESCRIPTION
Dark red paint on brown-red.
CONTEXT
Schmidt Test Trench 3.
PUBLICATION
Schmidt AJSL 1929: K 103.

IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: Schmidt K 106
KERKENES INVENTORY: Schmidt K 106
CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Painted
TYPE: Sherd
ITEM: Sherd with painted decoration
MATERIAL: Clay
Drawing from Schmidt 1929.
DESCRIPTION
Brown-red bands on light brown.
CONTEXT
Schmidt Test Trench 4.
PUBLICATION
Schmidt AJSL 1929: K 106.

IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: Schmidt K 113
KERKENES INVENTORY: Schmidt K 113
CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Painted
TYPE: Sherd
ITEM:Sherd with painted decoration
MATERIAL: Clay
Drawing from Schmidt 1929.
DESCRIPTION
Red-brown bands on light brown.
CONTEXT
Schmidt Test Trench 12.
PUBLICATION
Schmidt AJSL 1929: K 113.

IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: Schmidt K 114
KERKENES INVENTORY: Schmidt K 114
CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Painted
TYPE: Sherd
ITEM:Sherd with painted decoration
MATERIAL: Clay
Drawing from Schmidt 1929.
DESCRIPTION
Dark brown bands on light buff.
CONTEXT
Schmidt Test Trench 12.
PUBLICATION
Schmidt AJSL 1929: K 114.

IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: Schmidt K 112
KERKENES INVENTORY: Schmidt K 112
CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Painted
TYPE: Sherd
ITEM: Sherd with painted decoration
MATERIAL: Clay
Drawing from Schmidt 1929.
DESCRIPTION
Dark brown on greyish white.
CONTEXT
Schmidt Test Trench 12.
PUBLICATION
Schmidt AJSL 1929: K 112.

IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: Schmidt K 101
KERKENES INVENTORY: Schmidt K 101
CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Painted
TYPE: Sherd
ITEM:Sherd with painted decoration
MATERIAL: Clay
Drawing from Schmidt 1929.
DESCRIPTION
Black-brown on dark purple.
CONTEXT
Schmidt Test Trench 3.
PUBLICATION
Schmidt AJSL 1929: K 101.

IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: Schmidt K 100
KERKENES INVENTORY: Schmidt K 100
CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Painted
TYPE: Sherd
ITEM:Sherd with painted decoration
MATERIAL: Clay
Drawing from Schmidt 1929.
DESCRIPTION
Lustrous black-brown paint on buff.
CONTEXT
Schmidt Test Trench 3.
PUBLICATION
Schmidt AJSL 1929: K 100.

IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 93SURFU00pot02
KERKENES INVENTORY: K93.063
CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Painted
TYPE: Sherd
ITEM:Sherd with painted decoration
MATERIAL: Clay
Photograph 05dpnk1204 by Murat Akar.
DESCRIPTION
Top of shoulder of a small closed vessel with handle scar. Fine orange ware, red slip and black paint. The design is some version of the meander pattern.
CONTEXT
Surface find.
PUBLICATION

IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 00CT16U17pot01
KERKENES INVENTORY: K00.089
CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Painted Ware
TYPE: Sherd
ITEM: Sherd with painted decoration
MATERIAL: Clay
Photograph 05dpnk1105 by Murat Akar.
Drawing by Isabelle Ruben.
DESCRIPTION
Sherd from shoulder of large jar. Fabric is hard, pale reddish, with sparse grits; there is pitting on the interior. Patterning is matt paint ranging from very dark reddish brown to a lighter shade with thin and reddish brown dots, all on a hard, thin, white ground. Highly polished.
CONTEXT
Palatial Complex, behind Structure A.
PUBLICATION
Summers, Palatial Complex, Chicago: OIP in press.

IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 00CT50U02pot01
KERKENES INVENTORY: none
CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Painted
TYPE: Sherd
ITEM: Sherd with painted decoration
MATERIAL: Clay
Photograph 11dpnd3402 by Geoffrey D. Summers.
Drawing by Ben Claasz Coockson.
DESCRIPTION
Sherd, probably from a jug, with white ground on a plain reddish surface and dark painted patterning.
CONTEXT
Cappadocia Gate, found on surface, burnt debris and material laid against glacis base.
PUBLICATION
Summers, Cappadocia Gate, Chicago: OIP in press.

IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 93SURFU00pot01
KERKENES INVENTORY: K93.061
CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Painted
TYPE: Sherd
ITEM: Sherds with painted decoration
MATERIAL: Clay
Photograph 05dpnk1206 by Murat Akar.
DESCRIPTION
Two sherds with the same registration number. Left: top of shoulder of closed vessel. Red ware with grit temper. B band of geometric patterning in dark red paint on a on a white ground. Right: sherd of fine red ware with plum-red paint.
CONTEXT
Surface finds.
PUBLICATION

IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 96ST04U06pot23
KERKENES INVENTORY: K96.065
CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Painted
TYPE: Sherd
ITEM: Sherd with painted decoration
MATERIAL: Clay
Photograph 05dpnk1209 by Murat Akar.
DESCRIPTION
Sherd from a closed vessel. Red paint adjacent to white ground; three compass-drawn concentric arcs on the white ground. Orientation uncertain.
CONTEXT
Schmidt Test Trench 4, unstratified.
PUBLICATION

IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: Schmidt K 105
KERKENES INVENTORY: Schmidt K 105
CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Painted
TYPE: Sherd
ITEM: Sherd with painted decoration
MATERIAL: Clay
Drawing from Schmidt 1929.
DESCRIPTION
Black-bordered purple bands and purple dots on light brown.
CONTEXT
Schmidt Test Trench 4.
PUBLICATION
Schmidt AJSL 1929: K 105.

IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: Schmidt K 115a-c
KERKENES INVENTORY: Schmidt K 115a-c
CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Painted
TYPE: Sherd
ITEM: Three fragments from one vessel
MATERIAL: Clay
Drawing from Schmidt 1929.
DESCRIPTION
Three fragments from one vessel, decorated with black-brown and white on a brown-red ground. K115a has a white band bordered and crosshatched by black-brown lines and containing white angle-bands also bordered by black-brown lines. K115b has a band subdivided into white triangles bordering lozenges white, crosshatched, or filled with crosslike patterns; below, solid triangles alternate on opposite sides of a line. K115c has a checkerboard pattern with alternating white and black-brown fields.
CONTEXT
Tepe IV (tumulus).
PUBLICATION
Schmidt AJSL 1929: K 115a-c.

IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: Schmidt K 27
KERKENES INVENTORY: Schmidt K 27
CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Painted
TYPE: Sherd
ITEM: Sherd with painted decoration
MATERIAL: Clay
Drawing from Schmidt 1929.
DESCRIPTION
Dark brown and red-brown on light buff; smooth; horse and feet of a man.
CONTEXT
Schmidt Test Trench 2.
PUBLICATION
Schmidt AJSL 1929: K 27.

IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: Schmidt K 62
KERKENES INVENTORY: Schmidt K 62
CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Painted
ITEM: Sherd
ITEM:Sherd with painted decoration
MATERIAL: Clay
Drawing from Schmidt 1929.
DESCRIPTION
Dark brown and red-brown bands on light buff; smooth; paste medium, light greyish yellow.
CONTEXT
Schmidt Test Trench 2.
PUBLICATION
Schmidt AJSL 1929: K 62.

IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 96ST10U01pot02 (new)
KERKENES INVENTORY: K96.040
CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Painted
TYPE: Sherd
ITEM: Sherd
MATERIAL: Ceramic
Photograph 05dpnk1207 by Murat Akar.
DESCRIPTION
Vessel sherd. Kap parçalari .
DIMENSIONS
Diameter: 56mm; height: 65mm; thickness: 12mm
CONTEXT
Finger grooves. Parmak izleri.
PUBLICATION

IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 96TT16U15pot15 (new)
KERKENES INVENTORY: K96.035
CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Painted
TYPE: Sherd
ITEM: Sherd
MATERIAL: Ceramic
Photograph 05dpnk1122 by Murat Akar
DESCRIPTION
Laconian vessel sherd Kap Parçalari.
DIMENSIONS
Diameter: max 15mm; height: max 18mm; 2 mm.
CONTEXT
Slipped or glazed on inside Kil astarli ya da sirli iç yüzey. Fragment of Laconia cup - probably first half 6th century BC (per GDS/ERM 14.8.96).
PUBLICATION

IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 93KALEU00pot01 (new)
KERKENES INVENTORY: K93.062
CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Painted
TYPE: Sherd
ITEM: Sherd
MATERIAL: Ceramic
No photo, no drawing
DESCRIPTION
Sherd
DIMENSIONS
Width: 42 mm; Height: 56 mm; Thickness: 7 mm
CONTEXT
Kale East Slope
PUBLICATION

IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 00CT23U02pot09 (new)
KERKENES INVENTORY: none
CLASSIFICATION: Pottery / Painted
TYPE: Sherd
ITEM: Sherd
MATERIAL: Ceramic
No photo, no drawing.
DESCRIPTION
Sherd from the shoulder of a jug, handmade, pale yellowish brown with considerable grit temper and burned out inclusions, uneven interior, and smoothed exterior. The letterform N in reverse, transliterated as y, was incised after firing.
DIMENSIONS
CONTEXT
Found between Structures A and D.
PUBLICATION