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<< Text Pages >> Surtepe - Round Barrow(s) in Turkey

Submitted by Andy B on Monday, 05 June 2006  Page Views: 4718

DigsSite Name: Surtepe
Country: Turkey
NOTE: This site is 4.117 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Birecik  Nearest Village: Surtepe
Latitude: 37.054487N  Longitude: 37.948889E
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.
4 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
5

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Tumulus in Turkey. Surtepe is a large site covering 50 hectares and is believed to have been an area of settlement even during the Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze ages (fourth and third millennia B.C.).
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Surtepe by davidmorgan on Wednesday, 27 June 2007
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It's somewhere about here: 37.07, 37.97. By the same damn on the Euphrates that flooded some of the beautiful Roman mosaics at Zeugma.
Sad pictures at the TAY project website.
I must have ridden almost right past it 3 years ago.
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Ancient stone tablets could shed light on Surtepe excavations by Anonymous on Monday, 05 June 2006
Results are being presented this week at the 28th International Congress on Excavations, Surveys and Research in Turkey, which started on Monday in Çanakkale, a western province that is also home to the ruins of ancient Troy

Ancient stone tablets and seals unearthed during archaeological excavations at the Surtepe tumulus, seven kilometers north of Birecik in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa, could shed light on other ancient structures discovered in the area.

A team of experts headed by project director Jesus Gil Fuensanta of Spain who have been working in the area as part of the Tilbes salvage project, discovered a monumental building -- believed to belong to the Persian-Achaemenid period prior to the conquest by Alexander the Great -- at the Surtepe mound during excavations in 2005.

Surtepe is a large site covering 50 hectares and is believed to have been an area of settlement even during the Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze ages (fourth and third millennia B.C.).

Fuensanta explained in a statement issued on Monday that the Persian building "was found in a place formerly uncovered by villagers."

"It had an official use until the early fourth century B.C. Up to three meters of its massive mud-brick walls were preserved, and it has traces of a paved court. During the 2005 excavations, different rooms of the building were also excavated. On the inside, which was partly burnt, were typical Achaemenid pots and fragments and administrative artifacts."

Source: Turkish Daily News
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