B065: Narlıger Farmstead / Villa / Tomb

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. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/92585>

B065

FarmsteadsTombs4: Roman5: Late Roman

Local Name: Narlıger Mevkii, SW of SekiLocal Informant: Kismet ÇağdakLocal Information: Field owner's grandson recently leveled an elevated platform in the field with bulldozer. Mayor's assistant said that geologically there is 50m of alluvial sediment in the valley floor.Latitude: 37.41.32.994Longitude: 28.46.50.550Elevation: 649.33mDimensions: Threshold Block: L: 1.44m; D: 1.00m; H: 0.31m ** Double Engaged Half Column: pres. H: 1.33m; W: 0.41m; D: 0.25m ** Inscribed Revetment: H: 0.24; W 0.20; Th: 0.05mDescription: Surface of field full of tile and various architectural fragments. Several piles of stone at edges of field containing worked marble blocks and architectural fragments, including 3 marble column bases, 2 spiral fluted marble colonettes, a marble threshold block, 4 double engaged half columns, capital fragments, and an inscribed base overcut with a cross (B074). The blocks may come from a villa, or perhaps from an elaborate tomb. One piece of revetment is decorated with incised bird. Site revisited on 14 June 2008 to conduct systematic pottery collection, but while there is a fair amount of tile scatter, no ceramics were visible in the unplowed area with the blocks or in any of the plowed fields surrounding it.Finds: marble floor tiles, petit appareil blocks, base molded block, revetment, inscribed revetment, tile ** Systematic pottery collection on 6/14/2008

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