11. Araştırma Sonuçları Toplantısı - Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı

clearly attested in the nearby Elmalı plain. It is unclear whether these varioustypes of tomb are contemporary or successive.Two rural settlements were seen near Gökben Yaylası. One of these,at Batlıca mevkii, had a smaIl village on two adjacent hills, and yielded10 rock-cut sarcophagi. Four lids or chests, including one which hadbeen removed to a fountain near the main Fethiye-Antalya road, wereinscribed, and of these one lid, reused as a door jamb, has an inscriptionshowing that the Batlıca settlement belonged to Oinoanda, whereas theKaraculha-Boğalar basin to the east almost certainly belonged to Balboura.This perhaps provides an explanation for a smaIl structure set on aspur high above Gökben Yaylası. It is built of polygonal masonry of Hellenistictype, but measures only 14x20 m smaIler than most of the enclosuresfound, and less obviously associated with arable land. However, itslocation provides a clear view over the area below which must haveformed the border between Oinoanda and Balboura so that it would makean excellent border look-out post, belonging presumably to Oinoanda.Other Roman remains include a press weight in the village of Atlıdere(another is reported) and three rock-cut sarcophagi and a pressingtank in the area to the west of it. In Kayabaşı village, in addition to twoDioskouroi reliefs seen in 1991, a Dioskouroi relief, a badly damagedTriad relief, three rock-cut stelai, and a pair of simple inscribed stelaiwere found.In a brief study season in September Mrs Pamela Cading and Ms AIlisonMacDonald concentrated on the HelIenistic and later pottery at Fethiyemuseum, while avisit by Dr D.H.French in February 1993 made astart on the prehistoric materiaL. The sherds were numbered and registeredin such a way that the pottery from each site could be viewed as acomplete assemblage, while at the same time retaining a record of thetopographical subdivisions used in collecting it. Much of the time wasspent in building up a series of shape and fabric types, which will be thebasis of detailed analysis of the finds from each site. But an initial assessmentwas made of the sherds from each site, so as to establish the broadperiods represented.The most important development in our understanding of the pottery,and hence of the settlement of Balboura's territory, results from the discoverythat previously noticed but unknown red stick-bumished pottery,which was taken to be a local Late Roman ware, is in fact Iate Byzantine,presumably produced in Lycia, in view of the quantity found. Parallelscome from a thirteenth century destruction context at Xanthos, and433