Elazığ-Malatya Yöresi Duvar Resmi Geleneği ve Pirot Höyük Duvar Resmi

Year 2003, Issue: 6, 117 - 124, 01.12.2023

Engin Akdeniz , Özgen Karaca

Abstract

Pirot Höyük is located 33 km east-northeast of Malatya, in the village of Pirot (Kıyıcak) along on the south bank of the Euphrates River. The village was once within the province of Kale Bucağı, before the construction of the Karakaya dam. The excavations revealed fifteen main levels (I-XV), which represent settlements extending from the Mid/Late Chalcolithic period to the Byzantine times.
A wall painting has been defined on the northern wall of the feature 3, in the C 10 trench. It belongs to the XIIth level of Pirot Höyük which dates to the Late Chalcolithic. Links to this wall painting have not been established, though it can be considered an example to the wall painting tradition of the Elazığ Malatya region. Such as those from Arslantepe, Değirmentepe and Norguntepe.
The reason that the wall painting tradition is known at all from Elazig-Malatya region is that excavations have been limited to the dam salvage project.

Keywords

Doğu Anadolu, Elazig-Malatya yöresi Son Kalkolitik Çağ. Ik Tunç Çağı, duvar resmi, Pirot Höyük

The Wall Painting Tradition in Elazığ-Malatya Region and the Pirot Höyük Wall Painting

Abstract

Pirot Höyük is located 33 km east-northeast of Malatya, in the village of Pirot (Kıyıcak) along on the south bank of the Euphrates River. The village was once within the province of Kale Bucağı, before the construction of the Karakaya dam. The excavations revealed fifteen main levels (I-XV), which represent settlements extending from the Mid/Late Chalcolithic period to the Byzantine times.
A wall painting has been defined on the northern wall of the feature 3, in the C 10 trench. It belongs to the XIIth level of Pirot Höyük which dates to the Late Chalcolithic. Links to this wall painting have not been established, though it can be considered an example to the wall painting tradition of the Elazığ Malatya region. Such as those from Arslantepe, Değirmentepe and Norguntepe.
The reason that the wall painting tradition is known at all from Elazig-Malatya region is that excavations have been limited to the dam salvage project.

Keywords

Eastern Anatolia, Elazig-Malatya region, Late Chalcolithic Period, Early Bronze Age, wall painting, Pirot Höyük

References

• ERTEN, H., 1974 "Han Ibrahim Sah Kamları, 1971", Keban Projesi 1971 Ca Işmaları, ODTÜ Keban Projesi Yayınlanı, Ankara, 59-63.