Identification Number: 02TR03U05pot01

Kerkenes Inventory ID: K02.144

Classification: Pottery / Fine Wares

Finding Type: Incised Black Polished

Item: Juglet with cut-away spout

Material: Clay

Images

Photograph 05dpnk1110 by Murat Akar.\n Drawing by Judith Sellers.

Description

Juglet with cut-away spout, concave disc base and strap handle from rim to belly. Largely complete but most of handle missing. Wheelmade with interior marks especially at base. Fine, soft, light grey paste with no visible temper. Grey to black slip, burnished to high polish. Band of lightly incised panels filled with crosses divided by narrower panel with double vertical lines. Vertical panel filled with lattice decoration on handle stub. Restored from many fragments.

Dimensions

Diameter of base: 5.2 cm; height: 14.4 cm.

Context

Cappadocia Gate, erosion gully on the southwest side of the gate passage in trench TR03.

Publication

Summers, Cappadocia Gate, Chicago: OIP in press.