Bahadır Alkım

Uluğ Bahadır Alkım (born February 28, 1915 in Izmir , † May 6, 1981 in Istanbul ) was a Turkish archaeologist from the Near East .

Alkım studied Sumerian and Hittite philology , archeology and ancient history at Istanbul University from 1935 to 1939 . From 1941 he worked there as an assistant, in 1944 he received his doctorate. In 1945 he obtained the title of Doçent , in 1960 he became a professor. At the Boğaziçi Üniversitesi he founded the Institute for Archaeometry . He was visiting professor at numerous European universities.

In 1939 he worked on excavations in Vize , in 1942 in Alaca Höyük and in 1947 with Leonard Woolley in Tell Açana . In 1947 he was involved in the excavations in Karatepe with Helmuth Theodor Bossert and Halet Çambel . The bilingual inscription found there contributed significantly to the decoding of the Hittite hieroglyphs (now known as Luwian hieroglyphics ). 1957 to 1961 he excavated the Hittite sculpture workshop of Yesemek, which was discovered by Felix von Luschan . He was also involved in excavations in the Amuq plain, in Cilicia and the first systematic explorations of the Black Sea region .

Fonts (selection)

Karatepe kazisi / Excavations at Karatepe. Ankara, Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi 1948.
Anatolia I: From the Beginning to 1000 BC Cleveland / New York, Hippocrene Books 1968, ISBN 978-0-88254-146-4 .

personal data
SURNAME	Alkım, Bahadır
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Alkım, Uluğ Bahadır
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Turkish archaeologist from the Middle East
DATE OF BIRTH	February 28, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH	Izmir
DATE OF DEATH	May 6, 1981
Place of death	Istanbul