Archaeology in Asia Minor: Addenda

Abstract

The following notes and illustrations were received too late for inclusion in the report which appeared in the previous issue of AJA (70 [1966] 139-160). They bring the excavation reports of Gedikli Hiiyiik, 9avugtepe and Samosata up to date and add illustrations for Bogazk6y, Ilica, the Letoon near Xanthos, and Ephesus. Some current bibliography for other sites is appended. BO6AZK6Y. Professor K. Bittel kindly made the following illustrations available for the 1965 excavations on the west slope of the citadel (AJA 70 [1966] I45). Plate 75, fig. i shows the area where the connection between the citadel wall and the Hittite postern wall was investigated (cf. MDOG 95 [1965] plan opposite p. 48, squares bb-ee/20-24). In squares u-v/I7-18 on the citadel slope, a Phrygian staircase was found to descend between retaining walls (pl. 75, fig. 2) and to reach a stone-lined well-shaft in y-z/22 (pl. 75, fig. 3). This well-shaft measures three by three meters; the beams which supported a wooden platform over the water supply are still visible in the sides of the shaft. Special studies of Bogazk6y material have been published by T. Beran in Vorderasiatische Archiiologie (Festschrift Anton Moortgat, Berlin 1964) 27-38: Fremde Rollsiegel in Bogazkay and in ZAssyr 23 (1965) 258-273: Zum Datum der Felsreliefs von Yazilikaya. Chronological problems in the Old Assyrian period are discussed by F. Fischer in IstMitt 15 (1965) 1-16. HOROZTEPE. Tahsin Ozgiiq has published three silver vessels, a silver cymbal, an electrum bowl and a gold pin which came from the cemetery at Horoztepe to the collection of Hiiseyin Kocabag in Istanbul before the official excavations of the site. Some new drawings of other Horoztepe finds are also given, as is a table of analysis of the bronze and copper objects from the site based on the findings of S. Junghans and Ufuk Esin. Some of the objects have a high percentage of tin, others are nearly pure copper (Anatolia 8 [1964] 1-25). The article concludes with some important observations on Hittite pottery from mounds in the Pontic area, such as the mound at Horoztepe itself and Diindartepe near Samsun, and comments on the conflagration levels of ca. 1200 B.C. in this supposedly Kaska territory. KiULTEPE. An article by Tahsin Ozgiig (Anatolia 8 [1964] 27-48) discusses the stratigraphic and architectural sequence of Karum Kanesh IV-I with a liberal amount of illustrations of architectural details and small finds. GEDIKLI HiUYiUK. Professor U. Bahadir Alkim has kindly sent a progress report on his excavations of this mound in the Islahiye-Gaziantep district (cf. AJA 70 [1966] 147). In 1965, he deepened the stepped trench on the east slope and reached the ground water level at a depth of 21 m. below the top of the mound. The level reached is IV, probably late Chalcolithic. Virgin soil has not yet been reached at a depth of one meter below the water table. In an extension of the stepped trench, level III (Early Bronze Age) was further analyzed in its six sub-phases (a-f going down). In level IIIb a section of a heavy fortification wall with an adjacent chamber was exposed. The pottery is principally a well-made orange ware, which continues into the lower phases of level III. This ware is characteristic of the Islahiye region and also appears, though in lesser quantity, in Early Bronze II levels of the Amuq and Cilicia. It is decorated with streaky-burnished or grooved patterns. Some of the Gedikli pottery of this level is close to Khirbet Kerak ware. There are also finely made buff cups.