Kurban Höyük

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Kurban Höyük is an archaeological site in the southeast of today's Turkey . The place is located on the Euphrates in the Bozova district of the Şanlıurfa province and was mainly in the third millennium BC. More densely populated. At this time it had the character of a smaller town with around 6 hectares. Parts of the hill of ruins ( Tell ) were partially excavated from 1980 to 1984 before the hill disappeared in the lake of the Ataturk Dam .

The remains of the early Bronze Age city ​​are on two hills. The excavations took place in various places, whereby mainly residential buildings with stone foundations came to light. The rising masonry was once made of mud bricks. Not a single house could be completely excavated in plan. One of the houses appears to have served as a sanctuary. There were also remains that might indicate a city wall. Especially in the second half of the third millennium BC. Chr. (Phase IV). the place had an urban character and was densely populated on both hills. Around 2000 BC The place was abandoned and only settled again in the Middle Ages. The finds document metal processing on site. In addition to numerous ceramics, there were clay figures of animals, stone tools and seals.

The individual layers can be summarized as follows:

Individual evidence

  1. Patricia Wattenmaker: Household and State in Upper Mesopotamia , Washington, London, ISBN 1-56098-782-0 , 28
  2. Watt Maker: Household and State in Upper Mesopotamia , 105
  3. Watt Maker: Household and State in Upper Mesopotamia , 77-78
  4. Watt Maker: Household and State in Upper Mesopotamia , 30

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