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II.a.Research on the Less Documented Occupation Periods in the Territory of
Sagalassos
M. WAELKENS
J. POBLOME
H. VANHAVERBEKE *
II.a.1. Aims
The aim of this survey is to revisit sites that are likely to yield ceramics dating
from periods for which material evidence is scant, being the MBA-LBA-Iron Age and
the period after the middle of the 7th century AD (post-Early Byzantine to Ottoman).
The data resulting from this survey is used to complement the Sagalassos Fabric Reference
Collection, which was initiated in 2002 in order to document the non-Roman
period ceramic evolution in the territory of Sagalassos.
II.a.2. Preliminary Results
This year the following sites were revisited, yielding ceramic evidence for various
periods:
- Gâvur Evi - Yarıköy: Early Bronze Age - Ottoman = village settlement
- Yumrutaş - Yarıköy = small settlement
- Höyük - Kozluca: Iron Age - Early Imperial = ancient Kormasa
- Tekke - Hacılar: Iron Age - Early Imperial = fortress
- Kale - Dereköy: Iron Age - Ottoman = fortress
- İspir - Ağlasun: Iron Age - Early Imperial = fortress
- Ulalan - Aşağı Güvenli: Iron Age - Early Byzantine = large settlement
- Kepez Kalesi - Kartalpınar: Early Bronze Age - Ottoman = Hellenistic city, later
village settlement (Fig. 13)
- Döşeme - Ağlasun: Imperial villa site
Last year, mainly the local series of Iron Age fabrics was studied, with the largest
variety of fabrics present at Düver and Seydiköy. This year, detailed attention was
paid to two sites dating back to mainly Hellenistic times, Kozluca Höyük and Kepez Kalesi,
in order to establish the contemporary regional variety in fabric composition.
Clearly, Kozluca was a more outward-looking site with a variety of typical Hellenistic
tablewares including mould-made bowls, grey wares and the precursor to Sagalassos
red slip ware. At least four different common ware varieties were established at this site,
of which the most frequent one may even extend backwards into Classical times.
Kepez Kalesi also contained Iron Age Southwest Anatolian semi-fine tableware,
along with a semi-fine slipped fabric variety and two cooking wares with disc bases,
which may all continue, into Classical times (Fig. 11). The amount of Hellenistic material
at the latter site was rather restricted compared to Kozluca Höyük. Another difference
between both sites is that the time range of the höyük seems to come to an end
in early imperial times, whereas Kepez Kalesi still contained an amount of late Roman
material as well.
Last year, also nine early to mid Byzantine fabrics were determined. To the latter
can now be added a small series of local/regional fabrics from sites such as Ulalan
and Dereköy Kale (Fig. 13). All the early to mid Byzantine local/regional fabrics were
* H. VANHAVERBEKE is a postdoctoral fellow of the Fund for Scientific Research, Flanders. Address: Sagalassos
Project, Blijde Inkomststraat 21, 3000 Leuven/BELGIUM
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