F023: Possible Farmstead

Aphrodisias Regional Survey

2008-05-31

Citation: Page reference: Christopher Ratté and Peter D. De Staebler (eds.). Aphrodisias V. The Aphrodisias Regional Survey (Verlag Philipp von Zabern: Darmstadt/Mainz, 2012), 28, 71, 85, 235.

Other Identifiers: F023

Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/93018

Subject(s): Farmsteads, 4: Roman, 3: Hellenistic, 5: Late Roman

Description: Local Name: Geyre Latitude: 37.42.03.90 Longitude: 28.42.23.61 Elevation: 502.21m Description: A farmstead site is located in a modern olive grove. Field walls on the west and south sides have worked marble blocks of varying sizes in them, and 3 possible sarcophagus fragments. The pottery and tile scatter covers roughly 45m E-W and extends for at least 20m N-S. A press bed (B057) is in the SE corner of the field. Other large blocks include: another large marble block with a semicircular cutting on one side; a possible corner of a sarcophagus; a maybe reused architectural block; a hollowed out block with underside niche with claw chisel marks and dressed surface likely reused in olive oil production. Pottery from the site suggests a long period of occupation, and includes a fragment of a molded bowl and two Late Roman unguentarium fragments. Nearby is a large collection of stones, possibly from a tomb (at location 37.42.187 / 28.42.620, elevation 505m) Finds: Systematic pottery collection on 5/31/2008

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