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Pinarbasi - Bor |
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Mound |
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Altitude:
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1155 m |
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Region:
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Central Anatolia |
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Province:
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Nigde |
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District:
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Bor |
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Village:
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Merkez |
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Excavation |
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| It is situated in Nigde. It has a diameter of 120 m, and a height of 15.5 m. U. Silistreli conducted a short excavation at the site in 1982. It was visited and investigated during the Central Anatolian Survey conducted under the direction of S. Omura in 1990. The material collected from the surface include a few obsidian arrowheads and painted Iron Age sherds. It is listed in the registered archaeological sites inventory prepared by Ministry of Culture and Tourism. |
| Location: The site lies southwest of the city of Nigde; 3 km west-northwest of the town of Bor; on the left (southern) side of the Ankara-Bor-Nigde highway; in the area where the road slightly swerves to the west. In another publication; however; the mound-site is described as being on the northern side of the highway[Todd 1980:fig.17-20]. |
| Geography and Environment: It is reported that the mound site of Pinarbasi; which lies in the northern part of the fertile Bor Plain; is 8 m high and has a 100 m diameter (Omura reports that the mound is 15.5 m high [Omura 1992:543]). With the exception of the 30x50 m conical hill on top; the mound is round and flat. It has been proposed that the mound continues on the other side of the highway since pottery was found in the garden of the regional headquarters of the Highway Department; on the opposite side of the road. The highway may have thus destroyed part of the northern skirts of the mound. There is a spring; which feeds a lake or at least a river; in the rock outcrop on the northeastern side of the mound. The local name for the mound "Pinarbasi Höyük"; which literally means "head of the spring mound"; refers to this spring. Todd; Hours and other researchers have called the site Pinarbasi-Bor [Hours et al. 1994:269]. The site is surrounded by fertile agricultural fields. |
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