Report on a Work - Shop Belonging to The Late Phase of The Colony Period

Year 1955, Volume: 19 Issue: 73, 77 - 80, 20.01.1955

Tahsin Özgüç

Abstract

Among all the various structures that we investigated in the karum of Kaniş we found in squares Z-aa/26-27 a badly disturbed workshop belonging to level Ib. Although it was impossible to make an exact plan of the building because of its insufficient preservation, we could determine the main features of the construction and, by an examination of the moulds, the nature of the tools that were cast there. The technique of the foundation stones and of the masonry and the plan of the buildin.g are similar to those of other Ib buildings. The foundation is raised by one course of stoixes above the floor level, the mud-brick wall beginning at this point. The technique of the masonry of the wall running northsouth in Z-aa/27 is different from that of the others. This wall must have been added later. From room No. 1 (dimensions 2.70 x 2 m.) one passes, through a well-made door of 1 m. Width , in.to the considerably more disturbed room No. 2. Thefireplace in this room, which is made of flat bricks and represents a new type, is built achoining the wall. The two remaining portions of walls in aa/26 show the extension of the building towards the east and that it must have opened on the street of which some paving-stones are preserved. The room No. 3 has net yet been completely investigated. Large vessels with thick walls, some of them with, others without handles, were found in rooms 2 and 3 either on the flocr or partially buried, small vessels mostly in room No. 1 , a few in room no. 2, while melting- pets and moulds were found in both these rooms

Keywords

Kaniş, Anatolia, Samshi Aadad I, Archaeology