Ahrens, Alexander (2014). John Garstang at Sirkeli Höyük, Cilician Plain, in 1936-1937: Old Photographs and New Evidence from the Renewed Excavations. Anatolica, 40, pp. 47-60. Peeters: Leuven
Full text not available from this repository.During the winter of 1936-1937, British archaeologist John Garstang (1876-1956) excavated several trenches at the site of Sirkeli Höyük, located in the Plain of Cilicia (18 km west of modern-day Ceyhan). After a single campaign, however, he left the site and his interest shifted to site of Yumuktepe/Mersin, where he then excavated for a number of years. Apart from two very brief preliminary reports of his excavations at Sirkeli Höyük, which were published in the journal 'Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology of the University of Liverpool', not much is known about the trenches and their associated finds. Unpublished photographs kept in the Special Archives of University College London shed new light on the location and orientation of some of Garstang’s trenches at the site. Furthermore, in the 2012 campaign of the renewed Turkish-Swiss excavations at the site, a trench was found in the western part of the northern terrace that most probably was excavated by Garstang, but was not mentioned by him in his reports. This hitherto unknown trench may be related to his discovery of a lion-shaped column base made of basalt that is now kept in the collections of the Archaeological Museum of Adana.
Item Type: |
Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of History and Archaeology > Institute of Archaeological Sciences > Near Eastern Archaeology |
UniBE Contributor: |
Ahrens, Alexander |
Subjects: |
900 History > 930 History of ancient world (to ca. 499) |
ISSN: |
0066-1554 |
Publisher: |
Peeters: Leuven |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Miroslav Novak |
Date Deposited: |
11 Nov 2014 07:16 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 14:37 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Anatolien, Archäologie, John Garstang, Kilikien |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/59746 |
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