Identification Number: 00CT23U02pot03

Kerkenes Inventory ID:

Classification: Pottery / Common Wares

Finding Type: Crater

Item: Crater with rounded base and two vertical strap handles

Material: Clay

Images

Photograph 01dpol2901 by David Stronach. \n Drawing by Judith Sellers.

Description

Crater with rounded base and two vertical strap handles, only one of which is extant, attached to the centre of the neck and upper shoulder, flared rim with internal ledge; hand-made. Orange fabric with sparse grits and burnt out inclusions, not highly fired. Interior orange, smoothed neck below which the body wall is very uneven with irregular striations from wiping, perhaps with straw, on the lower portion. Exterior pale yellowish brown, well smoothed. A graffito was scratched on the handle.

Dimensions

Diameter: 35 cm.

Context

Palatial Complex, between Structures A and D.

Publication

Berndt-Ersöz, Pot mark catalogue number 5, in press.\nSummers, Palatial Complex, Chicago: OIP.