Descriptive Attribute	Value(s)
Site Number	15
Name	KM 15
Site Name	Unnamed Site
Description	Domuztepe #1
Survey Date	1993-09-28
Survey Year	1993
Collectors (Initials)	All
Previous Work	Vonder Osten 1930, 82, map 6 Collection re-examined 8/11--a large number of pithoi rims and bases found near architecture--these vessels are heavily tempered with white grits, other mineral temper is also used. Sherds are fully oxidized and have a red paste (10R5/6) that is compact but with heavy mineral temper mostly small white limestone rock chips; some vessels have a white or pinkish-white (7.5YR8/4=pink) plaster-like slip; rims thickened overhanging; often with a groove on exterior edge; bases are flat and strengthed by a heavy added disc and also are grooved. Forms include both basins and closed storage jars.
Map sheet no.	37SCB
Grid Location EW	112.0
Grid Location NS	361.0
Height	5.0
Length	320.0
Width	220.0
Site Size (1)	7.04
Local Landmarks	Canal, Çoban Tepe visible to NE along canal, corn field opposite
Setting	agricultural plain
Site Description	Site is now a plowed field but originally was low 5m (?) high mound, probably now spread over a larger area than the site occupied originally some stone blocks along canal possibly mark a city wall. Photos 20 and 21 Roll 3. Pithoi sherds concentrated next to architecture.
Collection Comments	Sherds of KM 16 mixed accidentally with 15 but material is very similar except 15 has a large number of huge pithoi fragments both rims and bases, some glazed, but otherwise nothing much distinctive roof tiles
Collection Summary	Roof Tiles Glass/Faience
Handles count	35
Middle Bronze Age note	none (LDS 9-98)
Late Bronze Age note	none (LDS 9-98)
Iron Age note	none (LDS 9-98)
Hellenistic Late Roman note	Late R. cooking pot//pc. brittle ware, several bits of roman local buff paste with red gritted sand temper, incl one w/ its slip/glaze now degraded (LDS 9-98)
Subregion	Central Valley
Neolithic	False
Halaf, Ubaid, Uruk	False
Chalcolithic	False
Early Bronze	False
Early Bronze, Middle Bronze	False
Middle Bronze	False
Late Bronze	False
Iron Age	False
Hellenistic, Roman	True
Medieval	False