Background: In their survey, Empereur and Picon (1989) identified two kiln sites—one located east of the city’s harbor and the other “2 km from the city”—which produced LRA1s, after earlier pseudo-Coan and Dressel 4 amphoras manufacturing. More recent investigations at Yumurtalik have located two discrete deposits of LRA1 wasters, one sitting 1 km east of Aigai near the Ayaş Hotel and the other 200 m east of the Ayaş Hotel, at a site called Domuz Burnu (“pig cape” or “pig snout” in Turkish) (Şenol and Alkaç 2017).
Number of kilns: 2
Typology: LRA1 Type B.
Local fabric “A hard, rough sandy fabric, ranging in colour from pinkish-white (7.5YR 8/2) to pinkish-grey (5YR 7/2). This fabric is much more granular in texture than [Seleucia Pieria and Arsuz], with a visibly much higher small white limestone content or voids with reaction rims. Small dark-coloured pyroxene and reddish serpentine can also be seen” (Williams 2005a: 166). In their analysis, Şenol and Alkaç found a very similar fabric at Aegeai, which contained “common white limestone, a little mica and round cryptocrystalline limestone, with less reddish serpentine, iron oxide and grains of quartz. These amphorae are coated with a thin white coat and the fabrics range from light brown to yellowish-red, due to different firing" (Şenol and Alkaç 2017:833).
Kiln #01
Location: 200 m east of the Ayaş Hotel at a place called ‘Domuz Burnu.’
Period of activity: Mid-5th to 6th c.
Description of the facilities: Wasters deposit
Kiln #02
Location: Near the Ayaş Hotel in Yumurtalik.
Period of activity: Mid-6th to 7th c.
Description of the facilities: Wasters deposit.
