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Kilokki Rabiseki / 45 No'lu Alan |
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Artifact Scatter |
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Southeastern Anatolia |
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Mardin |
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District:
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Dargeçit |
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Village:
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Ilisu |
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Investigation Method:
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Excavation |
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| The settlement is situated on sandy conglomerate bedrock on the northeast of Ilisu Mound in Dargeçit District of Mardin Province. The settlement yielded two architectural layers and a burial chamber. The excavations were carried out by Ökse and her team in 2011. A pot was found under one of the walls extending in the north-south direction in Trench A1 in the south section. These walls with a width of 1 m were erected with large stones and the space between these walls filled with small stones. The pot was seated on the bedrock and flat stones were placed around it. The mouth of the pot was covered with a sherd belonging to a different vessel and no finds were encountered inside. A3 / 006 / M located on the southern half of the trench is in square-like plan. There is a pit (A3 / 010 / Ç) dug into the rubble fill on the northeast of the trench. The pit is encircled by stones. The wall (A4 / 001 / D) with a length of 4.60 m and a width of 0.90 m is located in Trench A4. This wall extending in the north-south direction was built by filling the space between two parallel rubble stones with mud and small stones. In Trench A6 located on the north section of the settlement, two rooms related with the ashy layer, three floors and a pit were discovered. Pottery slags were found around the mud plastered oven on the north of the walls assigned as A8 / 001 / D on the eastern slope facing to Tigris River. In the lower level seated on the bedrock, the rubble fill was flattened and used as floor. The fill used as floor covering the large part of Trench A6 was plastered with mud in patches and a room with a depth of about 1 m was dug into the fill. Clay spindle whorls, stone weights, handmade local trefoil-jug, mug and potsherds and sherds belonging to Neo-Assyrian period found in this level resemble the ones recovered from Kumru Tarlasi (Zeviya Tivilki) which was excavated in 2009. The Assyrian wares might have been used in 8th and 7th century BC [Ökse et al. 2013:28-29]. |
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