An Achaemenid « Palace » at Qarajamirli (Azerbaijan) Preliminary Report on the Excavations in 2006

2007 ◽  
Vol 13 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 31-45
Author(s):  
Iulon Gagoshidze ◽  
Florian Knauß ◽  
Ilyas Babaev
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Achaemenid Empire ◽  
Ground Plan ◽  
Architectural Sculpture ◽  
Painted Pottery ◽  
Column Bases ◽  
The Village ◽  
Small Mound

Abstract Excavations on a small mound near the village Qarajamirli in western Azerbaijan provided remains of a monumental building, as well as quite a number of fragments of limestone column bases. The symmetrical ground plan of the building, the architectural sculpture and the pottery found on the floor closely follow Persian models from the Achaemenid era. Similar structures are known from Sary Tepe (Azerbaijan) and Gumbati (Georgia). These, as well as the building in Qarajamirli, can be interpreted as the residences of Persian officials, who left this area when the Achaemenid Empire collapsed. The painted pottery from the following period, when some peasants or herdsmen occasionally lived there, so far finds parallels only in Eastern Georgia.

Archaeological investigations of the Early Bronze Age burial site QA1 at Wadi al-Fajj in northern Oman: Results of the 2016 season

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 521-539
Author(s):  
Łukasz Rutkowski
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Skeletal Remains ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Burial Site ◽  
Joint Project ◽  
Ground Plan ◽  
Pottery Sherds ◽  
The Village

The first excavation season of a joint project of the PCMA and Department of Archaeology and Excavations, Ministry of Heritage and Culture, Oman, was carried out in the microregion of Qumayrah in the fall of 2016. A single tomb was investigated at an Umm an-Nar period burial site in the area of the village of Al-Ayn. A complete ground-plan was traced, identifying the tomb as an example of a well-known type with interior divided into four burial chambers by crosswalls. The excavated quadrant yielded commingled skeletal remains and mortuary gifts: numerous beads, a number of pottery sherds and a single complete vessel, a few metal objects and a score of stone vessel fragments.

Early Makuria Research Project. Excavations at Tanqasi. First season 2018. Preliminary Report

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 273-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maciej Wyżgoł ◽  
Mahmoud El-Tayeb
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Report ◽  
River Nile ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Chronological Sequence ◽  
The Village ◽  
Different Parts

Tanqasi village lies on the left side of the river Nile, about 17 km downstream from Merowe city. A large tumuli field is located some kilometers southeast of the village toward the edge of the Bayuda Desert. It contains no less than 250 tumuli of various size and form of superstructure, varying from very large to very small, but only four of these have been excavated so far (three in 1953 and one in 2006). A new study program, starting in 2018 within the frame of the Early Makuria Research Project, has now explored five more tombs located in different parts of the cemetery, providing a broad chronological sequence from late to terminal Meroitic.

scholarly journals Exploration in Galatia cis Halym

1899 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 34-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. W. Crowfoot
Keyword(s):  
Dark Green ◽  
The Village ◽  
Small Mound

Fragments of pottery are very plentiful upon most of the ancient sites in Galatia, but those who cannot excavate can hardly expect to find anything at all complete. We were very fortunate therefore in obtaining at the village of Sarilar, the ancient Sykeon, an almost perfect pot and a photograph of an ‘Idol.’ Both jug and idol had been found by a peasant in a small mound between the bridge and the village: together with these he discovered a circular macehead of dark green stone and a square piece of copper. In Bey-bazâr we had previously been shown a small saucer-shaped cup, which came from the same village and no doubt from the same excavation: it was hand-made and of the same clay as the pot, (for its shape cf. Dörpfeld, Troja, 1893, Fig. 29).

The twelfth-century castle at Ascot Doilly, Oxfordshire: Its history and excavation

1959 ◽  
Vol 39 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 219-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. M. Jope ◽  
R. I. Threlfall
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Window Glass ◽  
Valley Bottom ◽  
Documentary Sources ◽  
Natural Surface ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Church ◽  
Small Mound

SummaryThe castle of Ascot Doilly appears from documentary sources to have been put up c. 1129–50. Excavation in 1946–7 of a small mound on this manorial site showed that it had contained a stone tower 35 ft. square which had been built up from the natural surface of a 4-ft. rise of Lias clay protruding through the gravel of the Evenlode valley bottom. Round this tower, as it was raised, had been piled a low mound of clay; thus the impression of a tower on a mound was created. Beside it are remains of a bailey and contemporary paddocks. The tower had been deliberately demolished, probably c. 1180.The excavation thus revealed a new principle in smaller defensive building of the period, a mound piled round a stone tower. It also yielded a useful series of mid- to later twelfth-century pottery and other objects, and evidence of domestic window glass in the twelfth century.There are remains of thirteenth-century and later buildings in the bailey area. The village of Ascot represents a dual holding, with two mound-and-bailey castles at opposite ends 800 yds. apart, and between them the church (with twelfth-century work). There is also evidence of pottery-making in the village, at least in the early thirteenth century.

scholarly journals Preliminary report on the excavation of a new Late Bronze Age cemetery from Jobbágyi (North Hungary)

2015 ◽  
pp. 413-421
Author(s):  
Kristóf Fülöp ◽  
Gábor Váczi
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
Main Road ◽  
Archaeological Sciences ◽  
The Village

During the summer of 2014 an archaeological team of the Institute of Archaeological Sciences of the Eötvös Loránd University participated in the excavations preceding the expansion of main road No. 21 in Nógrád County.1 This project provided an opportunity to unearth a section of a large, biritual Late Bronze Age cemetery in the vicinity of the village of Jobbágyi.

Excavations at Hacılar, First Preliminary Report

1958 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 127-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Mellaart
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
River Valley ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
The South ◽  
Entire Surface ◽  
Main Road ◽  
South West ◽  
Antique Dealer ◽  
The Village

The village of Hacilar is situated in the Vilayet of Burdur in South-west Anatolia, about 25 km. west of Burdur itself on the main road to Yeşilova and Denizli. The chalcolithic site lies about 1·5 km. west of the village and just beyond the orchards, which are irrigated by a plentiful spring at the foot of a great limestone crag which overlooks the village. It is this spring which since neolithic times has been the main reason for more or less continuous occupation in this region. Apart from the neolithic and early chalcolithic site at Hacılar there is a large Early Bronze Age mound on the northern outskirts and a classical site to the south-west of the village.The prehistoric site is an inconspicuous mound, about 150 metres in diameter, rising to a height of not more than 1·50 m. above the level of the surrounding fields (Fig. 1 and Pl. XXIXa). The entire surface of the mound is under cultivation and a series of depressions show the holes made by a local antique-dealer in search of painted pots and small objects. About 1 km. west of the site runs the Koca Çay, the ancient Lysis, and on the eastern scarp of this river valley lies the cemetery of the Early Bronze Age settlement. Not a single burial has yet been found in the chalcolithic or neolithic levels of our site and it is therefore not unreasonable to suggest that its cemetery also may eventually be located there.

Excavations at Can Hasan: First Preliminary Report, 1961

1962 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 27-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. H. French
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
River Valley ◽  
Unique Position ◽  
North East ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Town

The village of Can Hasan is situated in the Kaza of Karaman, in the Vilayet of Konya, about 13 km. north-east of the town of Karaman. Can Hasan is a small village of about three hundred people, lying in a wide and fertile plain, not too far from the first low foothills of the Taurus. The approximate height of the village above sea level is 1,000 m.Geographically the importance of Karaman and its surrounding villages lies in its unique position at the end of the route (Fig. 1) through the Taurus which begins at Silifke and follows the Gök Su (Calycadnus) as far as Mut, from where there is little difficulty in crossing the watershed between the river valley and the Karaman plain. This is one of the great routes through the Taurus and one of the easiest: there are others. All of them are used even to-day, when nomads with pack animals travel up to 300 km. through the Taurus from summer to winter pastures.

The Acropolis Basilica Project, Sparta: a preliminary report for the 2000 season

2002 ◽  
Vol 97 ◽  
pp. 429-468 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Sweetman ◽  
Evi Katsara
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Use Of Space ◽  
Architectural Space ◽  
Ground Plan ◽  
British School ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Creation ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Church

The Acropolis Basilica, Sparta, was first excavated by G. Guttle, under the auspices of the British School at Athens, in the 1920s. Two further campaigns were carried out by members of the Athens Archaeological Society, who were not privy to the unpublished excavation daybooks of the British campaign. As a result, 80 years on, the church is still poorly understood; its date and chronological development have been the subject of much scholarly debate, as has its attribution to Osios Nikon. The first phase of a new study of the basilica is now well underway. This consists of non-intrusive study and recording to reach a better understanding of the monument and the previous investigations before new excavations are carried out. The aims of the first phase of the project are to undertake archaeological cleaning of the basilica and its associated buildings to facilitate the production of an accurate ground plan of monuments, the creation of stone by stone elevations of the exterior walls of all the buildings, and the detailed photography of every aspect of the entire basilica complex. Detailed recording of the features exposed in the basilica has been carried out in order to assess chronological phasing (both through context and architecture), use of space within the basilica and potential reconstructions of the edifices. Following the first season of the project, we have a number of preliminary ideas regarding the phasing of the basilica and use of architectural space. In this article we present these ideas, our methodology, a new plan of the monument and its associated buildings and, for the first time, a resume of Cuttle's excavations.

scholarly journals Preliminary report on human remains from Qasr Shemamok (Erbil, Federal region of Iraqi Kurdystan). Season 2012

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 173-178
Author(s):  
Jacek Tomczyk
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
Iraqi Kurdistan ◽  
Ancient City ◽  
First Results ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The Village

Qasr Shemamok, a large tell situated about 30 km southwest of Erbil, close to the village of Tarjan, is a well-known site of Iraqi Kurdistan. It has been identified as the remains of the ancient city of Kakzu (or Kilizu) since the 19th century. In 2012, a French archaeological Mission, guided by O. Rouault with a European team, and funded by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, came to work in Erbil, answering an invitation from the Kurdish authorities, and from the Erbil Salaheddin University, thanks to the strong support of the local French Consulate. The text presents the first results of the anthropological work at Qasr Shemamok, conducted in the 2012 season.

Preliminary Report on Archaeological Excavations in Sophtades, Cyprus: Pre-Byzantine Pottery

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 328-336
Author(s):  
Vakhtang Licheli ◽  
Giorgi Gagoshidze ◽  
Merab Kasradze
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Roman Period ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
Cultural Layers ◽  
The Village ◽  
Archaeological Excavations

Abstract The article is devoted to the materials found during the excavations of St. George Church located in the southern part of Cyprus, near the village of Softades. In the cultural layers inside of this church, pottery belonging to the Roman period, Iron Age and Late Bronze Age has been discovered. It is discussed in this article.

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