ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROOF OF ENJOY AT TİRE KUTU HAN: CLAY PIPES

Abstract

This paper deals with the Ottoman clay pipes found during the excavations carried out at the courtyard of

Kutu Han, located at Tire district of İzmir, in 2012. Plentiful ceramics of the periods before and after the con

struction of the han building were discovered in the excavations of 2012 for restoration in the building,

which was constructed in 1429. Besides unglazed ceramics, imported and domestically produced cups are

also available among the finds of the 18th-19th centuries. These cups prove that a coffee house known to

have existed at the han in the Republican Period had existed in the Ottoman Period too. During the excava

tion, red, white and grey paste pipes were found which were of 18-19th centuries’ production. The surfaces

of some pipes are slipped and burnished. The pipes were shaped with two methods in terms of the produc

tion technique. Of the pipes divided into two groups as elbow and elbowless pipes according to their shapes,

the elbow pipes were mold-made, whereas the elbowless pipes were wheel-made. It’s aimed to introduce

and emphasize the position of the pipes found in this form and the ones found in the other regions of Otto

man Empire.