Identification Number: 10TR22U01pot01

Kerkenes Inventory ID:

Classification:

Finding Type: Crater

Item: Sherds from the rim, neck, and shoulder of a large crater

Material: Clay

Images

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.