EXCAVATIONS AT KEF KALESİ OF ADİLCEVAZ, 1964

Year 1964, Issue: 08, 93 - 124, 01.01.1964

Emin Bilgiç

https://doi.org/10.1501/andl_0000000083

Abstract

The county {== ilçe) of Adilcevaz of the Province (= il) of Bitlis is situated on the North West coast of Lake Van .Tlıe fortified city, originally a Urartian Fortress and called Kef Kalesi (= fortress) is established on a volcanic hili top (Pl. 1) approximalely 6 Km North of Adilcevaz^. On three sides, the East, the South and the Wcst,
' Members of our Expedition consisting of the authors of this article and of .A. Erzen, Y. Boysal who have been doing researeh work in Van region since 1959, have also visited, on several occasions, Urartian fortresses in the vicinity of .-Vdilcevaz during their work and have transferred to Van Museum the Urartian reliefs of •Adilcevaz prcviously published by C. A. Burney and G. R. S. Lawson in .A,S 8 (■95Ö)) PP- 211-216, Pl. 33. Our Expedition had decided to excavate at Kef Kalesi 10^1962, but aetual opcration.s could not start until 1964.

Keywords

KEF KALESİ, EXCAVATIONS, ADİLCEVAZ

References

• Ankara Üniversitesi - Ankara Anadolu (Anatolia) Dergisi