Byzantine glazed pottery from Thracian Chersonessos: Karainebeyli - Hisarlik

Hisarlik is approximately 3.30 km to the south-west of the village of Karainebeyli..The castle is located on an approximately 132-metre-long slope from an altitude of about 60m to an altitude of about 52m in a northeast-southwest direction on the south-western margin of Yantepe. Walls which were 2m high on average and which were unearthed as a result of illegal excavations at the north-western corner of the hill were documented. Glazed and unglazed pottery items representing the middle and late Byzantine periods are moderately intensive on the hill and intensive in the fields to the south-west of the hill in the locality of Hisarliky. The evaluation of the glazed pottery discovered around Hisarlik will form the subject of this paper. All glazed pottery items have red paste. Vessels decorated in the incised technique are considerable among the glazed pottery items. Examples of Aegean Ware and the Zeuxippus family were detected among the vessels with an incised decoration. Plainly glazed potsherds also make up a considerable group among the finds. © the individual authors and Archaeopress 2023. All rights reserved.