Identification Number: 00CT18U04pot02

Kerkenes Inventory ID: K00.118

Classification: Pottery / Coarse Wares

Finding Type: Lid

Item: MATERIAL:

Material: Clay

Images

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.