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produced a few fragments made of grittier kaolinitic clay. Shapes included
jugs with broad ribbon handles and wire-marks on flat bases (e.g., S1276-
01-03, S1718-01-04, S0003-01-03, S1886-01-02). The fabric and shape of these
sherds appear to be similar to those of Hayes’ group of ‘Unglazed White Ware
V’, dated to the mid to late twelfth century.
There were only a few sherds of Byzantine glazed fine wares. These
included a small handle fragment of so-called ‘Glazed White Ware II’
(S1265-01-03) (Fig. 12). 8 The piece is undoubtedly imported from outside the
Beyözü region, because it is made of the typical white kaolinitic clay from
Constantinople/İstanbul and has sparse green lead glaze on top. On the basis
of the Saraçhane chronology, the sherd can be dated in the Middle Byzantine
period, around the eleventh to twelfth centuries.
From the Medieval period (twelfth to fourteenth centuries) there were only
a few fragments of fine wares. Noteworthy are two fragments of Monochrome
Green Sgraffito bowls of a reddish fabric (F0301-01) from the village of Beyözü.
These sherds have an incised decoration in Seljuk style on the interior surface,
and can be dated in the fourteenth century. From other areas finds included
fragments of Monochrome Green Glazed Wares and Monochrome Brown
Glazed Wares of the same date, or perhaps a bit later, of the Ottoman period.
Several fragments of unglazed utilitarian wares made of a rather coarse reddish
fabric could be Late Medieval or Seljuk, dating roughly between the late twelfth
and fourteenth centuries. These shapes include plain oval handles of closed
vessels (probably cooking pots/jars). The fabrics and shapes are very similar to
unglazed domestic wares from Medieval sites in western Turkey, especially from
Ephesus during the Beylik period (thirteenth-fourteenth centuries). 9 Some thickwalled
fragments from Kale Tepe have a decoration of applied rope bands. These
sherds are from large storage jars (pithoi) with a flat base and an everted rim, of
8 Cf. Hayes, J., Excavations at Sarachane in Istanbul. Vol. 2, The pottery (Princeton 1992), 18-29;
Vroom, J., ‘Some Byzantine pottery finds from Kaman – Kalehöyük’, 165-166.
9 Vroom, J., ‘Medieval pottery from the Artemision in Ephesus: Imports and locally produced
wares’, in: F. Krinzinger (ed.), Spätantike und Mittelalterliche Keramik aus Ephesos (Vienna,
2005), 17-49 at 35-36.
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