Kütahya Ware Coffee Cups in Rural Cyprus and Greece: Peasant Ware It Is Not Justin Anthony Mann 1 & Benjamin A. Saidel 2 # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2018 Abstract The consumption of coffee in the early modern period is often fixed to the image of the seditious and raucous coffeehouse or with the ritual of offering a guest hospitality. The material accompaniments of coffee consumption, however, frequently go understudied. This article concentrates on Ottoman Greece and Cyprus and seeks to coalesce archaeological data to understand better the material role of coffee consump- tion on the Greek and Cypriot landscape through the presence of Kütahya wares. The narrative that emerges emphasizes a material role in status display, arguing that Kütahya wares form an archaeological marker of a rural elite. Keywords Kütahya . Coffee . Greece . Cyprus . Archaeological Survey Introduction In 1676, the famed British travel writer George Wheler shared a cup of coffee with the Archbishop of Athens. While seated on a sofa, he described his surroundings: BHe [the Archbishop of Athens] is a Man very much respected here, and lives more at his Ease, than any of his Quality I have observed in Greece…he entertain’d us civilly, receiving us after the Eastern Fashion; that is, making us sit upon a Sopha, and drink Coffee with him^ (Wheler 1682:350). Int J Histor Archaeol https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-018-0469-y * Justin Anthony Mann jam2bg@virginia.edu Benjamin A. Saidel saidelb@ecu.edu 1 McIntire Department of Art, University of Virginia, P.O. Box 400130, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA 2 Department of Anthropology, East Carolina University, 231 Flanagan Building, East Fifth St, Greenville, NC 27858, USA