Identification Number: 11TR24U25pot01

Kerkenes Inventory ID: K11.275

Classification: Pottery / Sherds with Graffiti

Finding Type: Alphabetical

Item: Sherd from the shoulder of a closed vessel

Material: Clay

Images

Photograph 11dpnd3411 by Geoffrey D. Summers.Drawing by Ben Claasz Coockson.

Description

Sherd from the shoulder of a closed vessel, wheelmade, burnt to a pale brown colour from what would probably have been bright red. The fabric contains a little mica and is grit tempered, exterior smoothed and burnished, possibly coated with a thin slip. A symbol was shallowly incised after firing. Several red ware jugs with cut-away spouts found at the Palatial Complex had a similar symbol incised on the shoulder under the loop of the handle.

Dimensions

8.75 by 7.5 cm.

Context

Cappadocia Gate, from the makeup below the floor of Room 2.

Publication

Summers, Cappadocia Gate, Chicago: OIP in press.