New Results on Middle Bronze Age Urbanism in South-Eastern Anatolia: The 2004 Campaign at Tilmen Höyük

Year 2006, Issue: 5, 199 - 212, 01.06.2006

Nicolò Marchetti

Abstract

After the first excavations between 1959 and 1972 by Bahadır Alkım and his team Duru 2003 , a renewed joint Turkish-Italian project has been started in 2003 with the aim of better studying the urbanism of this 5 hectares large site fig. 1 and of obtaining a detailed chronological seriation for its monuments and material culture, also setting it into its regional framework and contributing to the historical framework of south-eastern Anatolia and northern Syria during the 2nd mill. BC Marchetti 2004; id. 2005a; id. 2005b . The site was most likely the capital of a small kingdom: its ancient name remains unknown, the identification with Zalbar being just a hypothesis1 Forlanini 1985: 54-56 .

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