The pottery with non-verbal graffiti and dipinti from Dascyleium

Dascylium enjoyed political and economic power over Hellespontine Phrygia and beyond from the late 8th century BC, until the Roman period. Pottery sherds with nonverbal graffiti and dipinti were discovered among finds from the Phrygian, Lydian, Achaemenid and Hellenistic periods. The pottery provides information on many phases of the site’s habitation and on matters such as social life, belief systems, the literacy level in the city and the centres with which it had commercial relationships