Caravanserai or Caravansary of Karatay Han, by Unknown Artist, 1246, 13th Century. Turkey, Cappadocia, Kayseri, Kayseri, Karatay Han. View Karatay Han. The tapered conical coping, which had already been widely employed in the building of funerary monuments, as well as in earlier Persian examples, was later used to cover the halls of Anatolian caravanserais caravansaries Dome cladding austere structure 2009 photograph.