ABSTRACT

This paper will examine the local trade of a class of Byzantine painted pottery in the province of Isauria in Asia Minor. The ware is significant because of its distinctive decoration and its apparently unique discovery at excavations only in the Göksu valley in southern Turkey. The range of forms and a variety of different types of decoration found in this distinctive pottery tradition, together with its apparent local distribution, may therefore provide us with particular insights into the people, customs and trade relations of Isauria during the early Byzantine period.