Sphore Conical vessels presented at Konya Karatay museum

ABSTRACTOne of the areas of the Turkish-Islamic arts research, which was neglected orat least not adequately evaluated, constitutes the subject of ceramics. Current workswhich were conducted on the Middle Age Turkish-Islamic ceramic art approached tothe subject in technical and adornment terms, vessel formats were not worked onmuch.Function of the spherical-conical vessels whose upper part resembles ahemisphere and whose bottom a cone and which constitutes our work subject has notbeen yet determined. Researchers are asserted some ideas that these cups might havebeen used as containers in Northern Africa, Middle East, Caucasian and Anatoliawhich are part of Turkish-Islamic geography for to maintain liquids like perfumes ormedicines, fire blower, hand grenade, perfume, mercury or a beer or beverage cup,weight for carpets or to maintain materials has been distillated especially.So far, spherical-conical vessels are located in İstanbul Turkish-IslamicWorks, Konya Karatay, İstanbul Topkapı Sarayı (Palace), Mardin, ª anlıurfa,Antalya, Kayseri, Niðde, Malatya, Gaziantep, Adıyaman and Adana museums inAnatolia; examples of them were found out in the excavation centers suchKubadabad, Ani, Samsat, Milet, Ahlat, and Alanya Kalesi (Castle), Harran, OldKhahta (Eski Kahta), Tille tumulusIn this work, eighty spherical-conical vessels were discussed which are in theKonya Karatay Museum where the spherical-conical vessels are the densest.Within the framework of our work, documentation of the spherical-conicalvessels in the Konya Karatay Museum were completed as photograph and drawing.When the construction and decoration technique and features such as dough, of thespherical-conical vessels in the Karatay Museum were examined closely, it becomesclear that they show cultural unity with the examples in the other centers wheresimilar vessels were discovered apart from some local features and differences.AcroPDF - A Quality PDF Writer and PDF Converter to create PDF files. To remove the line, buy a license.