Finds 1773
Main Information
| Finds ID | 1773 |
| Site |
Köşk Höyük |
| Area |
ID 752 settlement |
| Research event | |
| Finds type | pottery |
| Small finds category | None |
| Small finds type | |
| Botany species | |
| Animal remains species | |
| Animal remains completeness | None |
| Animal remains part | |
| Lithics technology | |
| Lithics industry | |
| Lithics cores and preparation | |
| Lithics retouched tools | |
| Lithics unretouched tools | |
| Lithics raw material | |
| Obsidian | None |
| Obsidian amount | None |
| Pottery form | |
| Pottery detail | |
| Pottery decoration |
Figure Relief Decoration Incised Red slipped |
| Pottery type | None |
| Amount | |
| Material | |
| Confidence | None |
| Comment | All pottery here is hand-made. Pots were made with middle to small sized grit, used as tempering, in grey, brown or buff. Some had mica inclusions, weren't fired well, were hand-smoothed, had a slip in red, brown or grey. They were burnished to avoid flaking of the slip. Most were monochrome, some had reliefs or were incised (spirals, semi.meander, triangle, rhomboid; enriched by dots; incisions and dots were often encrusted with white material). They rarely had handles. Most pots were flat-based, some were of the elevated flat type. There were box-like pots with corners, but they were rare. Sometimes they had stands. Some had relief-decoration (e.g. hanging wheat heads, snakes) on their shoulders. Reliefs occurred mostly in Levels II and III, found in buildings as well as graves; reliefs were often applied below the neck, on the shoulder, rarely on the rim. Reliefs were made of paste that was applied to the vessel and shaped per hand. Depicted were mostly living beings (male/female deities, bulls, cows, goats, donkeys, deer, gazelles, leopards, turtles, frogs, snakes, birds, fish), sometimes symbolic abstractions. There was either one motif on the vessel, but several times, or a theme with more motifs (e.g. donkeys being hunted, cows were milked, females dancing hand in hand, a snake that had caught a fish). Symbolic motifs: crescent, sun on the shoulders (--> night and day), a woman's arms and breast (--> mother goddess, fertility), eye-shaped symbols; the relief decoration can be compared to finds from Tepecik-Çiftlik. |
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