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Mound |
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Mediterranean |
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Gaziantep |
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Islahiye |
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Yesemek |
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Survey |
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| It is situated 800 m west of the Yesemek Quarry near the Yesemek Village, 19 km southeast of the Islahiye District as the crow flies in Gaziantep. Alkim conducted a short excavation in the mound during the last year (1961) of his excavations in the Yesemek Sculpture Workshop. The objective of this excavation was to obtain data which would help in dating of sculptures, and hence the workshops, at the mound, presumably the site where the workers from the quarry and workshop lived. The excavations under the direction of B. Alkim conducted in an area of 10x20 m reached to a depth of 6.5 m in 20 days. Two more building levels were identified below the uppermost mixed level in the trench. However, further levels could not be reached. As the levels underlying the mixed level were accessed, very weak foundations of the 1st building level (Iron Age) which were dated to the first quarter of the 1st Millennium BC based on sherds were unearthed, and the same level yielded a silo of 2.5 m in diameter, whose walls were built with basalt stones. Recovery of a basalt column pedestal, a lot of polishing and crushing stones among these building ruins, which were built inelaborately, suggests that the building level 1 may have belonged to the houses of sculptors who worked in the workshops, and the stonemasons and workers who worked in the quarry. The deposit of this level is approximately 2.4 m thick [Duru 2004:9-17]. |
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