Citation
Page reference: Christopher Ratté and Peter D. De Staebler (eds.). Aphrodisias V. The Aphrodisias Regional Survey (Verlag Philipp von Zabern: Darmstadt/Mainz, 2012), 26, 71, 74, 80, 85, 207, 230, 235, 236. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/92525>
Description
Local Name: Kadıkerim Mevkii, Yazır
Local Informant: Ismail Dönertaş
Local Information: On East side of hill there was originally a church in the shape of a cross, but it has been dug up. There was apparently a marble statue of a baby inside
Latitude: 37.42.20.218
Longitude: 28.39.15.520
Elevation: 503m
Description: This extensive settlement is located 5.0 km to the southwest of the ancient city within a young pine plantation and sits on a natural limestone and schist outcropping. This site covers an area approximately 200 m by 40 m. Clear outlines of buildings are seen all along a natural rise, as well as terrace walls for the settlement and lower buildings. An Ottoman aqueduct (B073) carries water from a spring to the center of this site, and an ancient cistern is at the southern end of the site. Press and mill elements (B072) include a counterweight block, a crushing basin, a grinding stone, a possible grinding bed, and two socket blocks. There are numerous tile and brick fragments across the site, as well as fragments of marble revetment. The pottery from this site shows a long period of occupation, including both the earlier and later types of cookwares, echinus bowl rim fragments, a skyphos fragment, ESB fragments, and Late Roman Unguentarium fragments.
Finds: Large amount of pottery, revetment, tiles and pipe fragments found. Finds date occupation to the long Roman period, roughly 1st c BC through the 6th c AD (+ 1 Ottoman fragment); the pottery assemblage seen here is close to that known at Aphrodisias ** Systematic pottery collection conducted 20 June 2006