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Pagnik Öreni |
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Type:
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Mound |
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Altitude:
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725 m |
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Region:
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Eastern Anatolia |
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Province:
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Elazig |
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District:
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Agin |
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Village:
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Kaspinar |
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Investigation Method:
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Excavation |
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Period:
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EBA III |
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| Location: It was located where the Kaspinar (Pagnik) Village was situated; 3 km southeast of the Agin District; some 25 km northwest of Elazig Province. It was flooded by the Keban Dam. |
| Geography and Environment: The mound was located on a triangular outcrop with steep slopes; carved by a small stream at the first bench of the Euphrates [Harper 1971:pl.62]. It was reported to measure 50 m in length; 20 m in width and 2 m in height and there was a small Roman fortress to the southwest [Harper 1970:131]. |
| History: |
| Research and Excavation: It was excavated rather like a sounding in parallel to the Roman Period fortress located in the surrounding under R.P. Harper in the name of the British Archaeological Museum in 1969 and 1970. |
| Stratigraphy: The excavation revealed that the mound had been; mainly; first occupied during EBA and used as a cemetery of the fortress located nearby during the Roman Period. |
| Small Finds: Architecture: R.P. Harper reports the presence of a four-cornered structure with stone walls; probably dating to EBA [Harper 1971:91; pl.63/1]. Flat quarry stones were attached with loam mortar.The floors between this building level and conglomeratic bedrock were found; but no architectural remains were uncovered. Pottery: Sherds of Karaz ware recovered from the EBA settlements of the region are accompanied with a sherd of painting decorated Malatya-Elazig ware. It is reported to have black painting decoration on a buffed background. It belongs to a teapot. Karaz ware has samples of jugs with triangular lugs. One of the publications related with the excavation illustrates a Karaz-type base for cups decorated with incision and insertion [Harper 1971:pl.63/4]. Harper claims that likes of this industry are; for now; found at Pulur/Sakyol Level VIII. Human Remains: The mound of Pagnik Öreni yielded both simple pit burials and pithos/jar graves. Pit burials are in oval shape; and the dead were buried in hocker position. Skeleton of a 9 years-old child was recovered from one of the jars and of a baby from another. Some of the graves are a mixture of two burial types. The burial interred into the simple pit grave in hocker position was capped by rough sherds. Adult burials were also found. Among them there is a male burial that underwent a heavy skull operation and cured when he was in his 40s. The skeletons were examined by J.L. Angel. It is noted that EBA people had a customs for intramural burials. |
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| Interpretation and Dating: Pagnik Öreni is included in the archaeological literature; without any specific significance; within the context of the excavations for the Roman Period fortress. Finds were not analyzed and published in detail. |
