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Karkamis | |||||
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| Location: Saraga is located on the west bank of the Euphrates; about 800 m northeast of the village of Keleklioglu (Sara); in the Karkamis district of the province of Gaziantep. The village is reached by an asphalt road that runs parallel to the river after leaving the Gaziantep-Urfa highway at Birecik. |
| Geography and Environment: The cemetery is located 800 m to the southwest of the settlement of Saraga; between the mound and the village of Keleklioglu; on the west and north skirts of Sara Mezar Harabe; which was identified during G. Algaze's survey [Algaze et al. 1994:51]. Leveling for modern cultivation during the 1980s resulted in the area north of Sara Mezar Harabe being completely stripped; and it is believed that dozens of graves disappeared. Since the graves cannot be seen on the surface with the naked eye; the exact extent of the cemetery cannot be gauged. The continuous watering and ploughing has caused the soil to become extremely hard and this has caused a certain degree of damage for the graves [Sertok-Kulakošlu:2002a:375]. |
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