Preliminary Report of the First Season of the “Land of the Storm God Survey” in Şehitkamil, Gaziantep, Türkiye

Abstract

The results of the first campaign of the “Land of the Storm God Survey” in the Şehitkamil district of Gaziantep province in Southeastern Türkiye are—according to the two foci of the survey—twofold: First, an off-site survey on the slopes of Dülük Baba Tepesi, the home of a storm god temple built during the Middle Iron Age, was conducted. Here, an expansion of the Roman “priest necropolis,” a second necropolis on the Southern slope, as well as economical installations of Late Antiquity have been documented. The second focus is an on-site survey, where the investigation of six archaeological sites in the vicinity revealed longer settlement phases than previously assumed.

Keywords

• Survey
• Gaziantep
• Iron Age
• Temple
• Storm God

Şehitkamil, Gaziantep Yüzey Araştırması İlk Sezon Ön Raporu (Land if the Storm God Survey)

Öz

Türkiye’nin Güneydoğu bölgesinde yer alan Gaziantep iline bağlı Şehitkamil ilçesinde gerçekleştirilen “Land of the Storm God Survey (Fırtına Tanrısının Toprakları Yüzey Araştırması)” in ilk sezonunda yapılan çalışmaların sonuçları, araştırmanın iki ana odağına göre iki parçadan oluşmaktadır. Sonuçların ilk kısmı, Orta Demir Çağı’nda bir fırtına tanrısının tapınağına ev sahipliği yapan Dülük Baba Tepesi’nin yamaçlarında gerçekleştirilen alan dışı yüzey araştırmasında elde edilmiştir. Burada, Roma Dönemi’nden kalma “rahip nekropolü” genişletilerek oluşturulan, güney yamaçta yer alan ikinci bir nekropol ve Geç Antik Çağ’a ait ekonomik yapılar belgelenmiştir. Sonuçların ikinci kısmı ise yakın çevredeki altı sit alanının incelenmesiyle gerçekleştirilen alan içi yüzey araştırmasıyla ilişkilidir. Bu araştırma, bu alanda daha önce düşünülenden daha uzun süreli yerleşim evreleri bulunduğunu ortaya koymuştur.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Yüzey Araştırması
• Gaziantep
• Demir Çağı
• Tapınak
• Fırtına Tanrısı

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