Identification Number: 11TR24U03pot01

Kerkenes Inventory ID:

Classification: Painted

Finding Type: Jug

Item: Jug with cut-away spout

Material: Clay

Images

Photograph 11dpkc3801 by Noël Siver.\n 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.