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Belasari / Iskele |
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Workshop |
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Region:
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Aegean |
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Province:
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Mugla |
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District:
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Milas |
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Village:
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Akkovanlik |
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Investigation Method:
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Survey |
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Period:
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Roman |
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| Many presses were recovered during the survey conducted by Diler in 1995 at so called Belasari and Iskele to the north of it; near the Akkovanlik Village of the Mugla Province. Also; some extant walls and burials were found at Iskele. The workshops; which are concentrated on the western slope of the settlement; included simple rock presses. They were designed in a technique with press handles [Diler 1997:194]. The settlement at Belasari consists of a an area measuring 50x70 m enclosed by a city wall. Some extant remains of buildings and sarcophagus basins were found; probably from the Late Roman-Byzantine Period. To the east; there are three oil workshops besides simple grape presses carved into the rock. One of them looks like press beds opened onto a 8 m long rocky mass and connected to each other by channels. The floor of the third pres bed was arranged to have functioned like a collection pool. The larger beds and absence of any pavements like trapetum (roller mill for removing seeds) common in such workshops indicate that they had been used for pressing grapes [Diler 1997:194-195]. |
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