Excavations at Kültepe 1954 Finds on Levee Ib

Year 1955, Volume: 19 Issue: 73, 64 - 72, 20.01.1955

Tahsin Özgüç

Abstract

The excavations at Kültepe-Kaniş and the karum of Kaniş, conducted on behalf of the Turkish Historical Society and the General Direction of Antiquities and Museums, were continued in 1954 during the month.s of July, August, and September. The staff was the same as in 1953, with the addition of Dr. Kemal BALKAN, who retumed from. Chicago at the beginning of the season, and of Dr. Kadriye YALVAÇ. These two colleagues of ours thus had the opportunity to study the tablets at the site itself. The 1954 excavations were carried on with two aims :

To arrive, in the light of the level Ib tablets, at a better understanding of the relation between the two building levels through an investigation of both levels I and II over as wide an arca as possible.

To open the graves under the floor level of the level II buildings previously excavated in squares N, O, P, R

Keywords

Kültepe, Kemal BALKAN, Kadriye YALVAÇ, General Direction of Antiquities and Museums