Sakçagözü

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Coordinates: 37 ° 10 ′ 24 ″  N , 36 ° 55 ′ 31 ″  E

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Relief from the palace near Sakçagözü, approx. 750 BC Chr.

Sakçagözü is a village in the Nurdağı district of the Turkish province of Gaziantep with about 3,000 inhabitants. Not far from the place is the archaeological site Coba Höyük , which is sometimes referred to in the literature by the name of the place Sakçagözü.

Settlement history

John Garstang distinguished three settlement mounds . Höyük A ( Coba Höyük ) was about 140 × 90 m in size and about 10 m high. The site was found from the 7th millennium BC. Until the 1st millennium BC Populated again and again. Archaeological traces of settlement from the ceramic Neolithic, the Halaf , Obed and Uruk cultures as well as from the Neo-Hittite period can be proven. In the late 8th century BC The place appears to have been part of a kingdom, probably within the boundaries of the city-state of Sam'al . Sakçagözü may be the city of Lutibu, which, according to Assyrian sources, was not far from the city of Sam'al. City walls and a palace of the Hilani style have been found from this period .

The palace was about 40 × 50 m in size and surrounded by a monumental wall. The entrance was in the southwest, was flanked by two towers and the lower part was decorated with reliefs. A larger courtyard followed behind the entrance gate. On the opposite side of the courtyard was a large hall (of the bit hilani type ) paved with stones and decorated with reliefs on the walls. Two lion sculptures adorned the entrance.

exploration

Sakçagözü / Coba Höyük has only been archaeologically researched on a small scale, so that no complete stratigraphy is available. The place was found in 1883 by Karl Humann and Felix von Luschan , who took a relief of a lion hunt with them and brought it to Berlin, where it can be seen today in the Vorderasiatisches Museum . First excavations took place between 1908 and 1911 under John Garstang . John d'Arcy Waechter resumed the excavations in 1949 after the entrance to the Hilani Palace, which had already been discovered by Garstang, was removed in 1939.

The finds from Sakçagözü are exhibited today in the Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin, in the Museum for Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara and in Istanbul.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Çi̇fçi̇, in: Tarih İncelemeleri Dergisi . XXXIV / 2 (2019), 372
  2. ↑ Çi̇fçi̇, in: Tarih İncelemeleri Dergisi . XXXIV / 2 (2019), 376
  3. ↑ Çi̇fçi̇, in: Tarih İncelemeleri Dergisi . XXXIV / 2 (2019), 373-374
  4. ↑ Ali Cifci: John Garstang and Sakçagözü Excavations (1908-1911) . Tarih İncelemeleri Dergisi. Xxxiv / 2, 2019, 369-386

literature

  • Ali Çi̇fçi̇: John Garstang and Sakçagözü Excavations (1908-1911) . in: Tarih İncelemeleri Dergisi . XXXIV / 2 (2019), 369-386
  • John Garstang: Hittite Empire , London 1929, 262-278
  • J. du Plat Taylor; MV Seton Williams, J. Waechter: The Excavations at Sakce Gözü , in: Iraq 12/2 (1950), pp. 53-138.