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<< Other Photo Pages >> Coba Höyük - Ancient Village or Settlement in Turkey

Submitted by AlexHunger on Sunday, 27 August 2006  Page Views: 5804

Multi-periodSite Name: Coba Höyük Alternative Name: Sakçagözü
Country: Turkey
NOTE: This site is 3.424 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Gaziantep  Nearest Village: Sakçagöze
Latitude: 37.186667N  Longitude: 36.891389E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
1 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Coba Höyük
Coba Höyük submitted by durhamnature : 1908 photo of one of the mounds, from "Annals of Archaeology" via archive.org (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Village or Settlement in Gaziantep Province, Turkey

A mound with a settlement history of millennia based on 12 excavated layers:
Layer I: Neolithic Period
Layer II: Samarran and Halaf affinities
Layer III: Halaf affinities
Layer IV: Ubaid affinities
Layer V: Uruk-Jemdet Nasr
Layer V-VIII: Middle Bronze Age
Layer IX-XI: Iron Age.

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Coba Höyük
Coba Höyük submitted by durhamnature : 1908 photo of the portico sculptures, from "Annals of Archaeology" via archive.org (Vote or comment on this photo)

Coba Höyük
Coba Höyük submitted by durhamnature : Sculptures on the portico, from "Annals of Archaeology" via archive.org Site in Turkey (Vote or comment on this photo)

Coba Höyük
Coba Höyük submitted by durhamnature : 1908 photo of the portico sculptures, from "Annals of Archaeology" via archive.org (Vote or comment on this photo)

Coba Höyük
Coba Höyük submitted by durhamnature : 1908 photo of the portico sculptures, from "Annals of Archaeology" via archive.org (Vote or comment on this photo)

Coba Höyük
Coba Höyük submitted by durhamnature (Vote or comment on this photo)

Coba Höyük
Coba Höyük submitted by durhamnature (1 comment)

Coba Höyük
Coba Höyük submitted by durhamnature : 1908 photo of the excavation, from "Annals of Archaeology" via archive.org (1 comment)

Coba Höyük
Coba Höyük submitted by durhamnature : Section and plan of part of the excavation, from "Annals of Archaeology" via archive.org

Coba Höyük
Coba Höyük submitted by durhamnature : 1908 photo of the excavation, from "Annals of Archaeology" via archive.org

Coba Höyük
Coba Höyük submitted by durhamnature : Detail of 1908 excavation, from "Annals of Archaeology" via archive.org

Coba Höyük
Coba Höyük submitted by durhamnature : The 1908 excavations, from "Annals of Archaeology" via archive.org

Coba Höyük
Coba Höyük submitted by durhamnature : Map of the archaeological sites in the area, from "Annals of Archaeology" via archive.org Site in Turkey

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University of Liverpool digitises John Garstang's 1908 photos of Coba Höyük by davidmorgan on Sunday, 05 October 2014
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"We also digitized over 270 images relating to John Garstang’s excavations of several man-made mounds found near the village of Sakje Geuzi (Sakçagöze, Turkey) between 1908 and 1911."
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