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, 36, 71, 85, 223. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/92899>
Description
Local Information: SE Transect
Latitude: 37.39.42.922
Longitude: 28.45.26.840
Elevation: 692m
Description: Located on the top of a ridge SE of Aphrodisias, west of the Koca Dere. Visible on the hilltop are the remains of several rooms and other walls visible. Large scatter of pottery and tile on surface, wide variety of fabrics. Illicit excavation undertaken at several places in settlement, large holes surrounded by broken pithos fragments and pottery fragments. E of the settlement at bottom of hill is a large, flat, fallow area which features some long straight mounds, may be walls.This Settlement is northwest of and uphill from Monastary-Settlement D179.
Finds: Finds suggest (particularly Seki ware and a significant number of early forms) a generally early occupation for this site, starting in the pre-Hellenistic period, and primarily dating to the Hellenistic/Early Imperial period. ** Non-systematic pottery collection conducted 22-June-2007 ** [CMB, CKB, AC]