Finds 1776

Main Information
Finds ID 1776
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 Brown burnished
Figure Relief Decoration
Grey burnished
Incised
Red burnished
Red slipped
Pottery type None
Amount
Material
Confidence None
Comment Plates: All pottery here is hand-made. Plates 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. Plates had simple rims and were flat-based. Some had relief-decoration. 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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