Excavations at the Palatial Complex /

"The city on the Kerkenes Dag in the high plateau of central Turkey was a new Iron Age capital, very probably Pteria. Founded in the later seventh century BC, the city was put to the torch in the mid-sixth century and then abandoned. Excavations at what we have identified as the Palatial Comple...

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Main Authors: Summers, G. D. (Geoffrey D.) (Author), Berndt-Ersöz, Susanne (Author), Çinici, Ahmet (Author), Erdal, Yılmaz Selim (Author), Pişkin, Evangelia (Author), Siver, Noël (Author), Summers, Françoise (Author)
Other Authors: Eren, Güzin (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:English with Turkish summary.
Published: Chicago, Illinois : The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2022.
Series:Kerkenes final reports ; 2.
University of Chicago Oriental Institute publications ; v. 148.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Background : remote sensing, excavation strategies, methods, and notation / Françoise Summers and Geoffrey D. Summers
  • Chapter 2. The fortified structure of A / Geoffrey D. Summers
  • Chapter 3. Structures B, D, C, and E; the northern wall of the complex and the trench across the street / Geoffrey D. Summers
  • Chapter 4. The audience hall / Geoffrey D. Summers
  • Chapter 5. The Ashlar building / Geoffrey D. Summers
  • Chapter 6. Visual reconstructions of the audience hall and the Ashlar building / Ahmet Çinici and Geoffrey D. Summers
  • Chapter 7. The monumental entrance / Geoffrey D. Summers
  • Chapter 8. The finds / Geoffrey D. Summers and Noël Siver
  • Chapter 9. Pot marks and graffiti on pottery at Kerkenes Dağ / Susanne Berndt
  • Chapter 10. Animal bones from the palatian complex / Evangelia Pişkin
  • Chapter 11. The Byzantine period / Yılmaz Selim Erdal and Geoffrey D. Summers
  • Chapter 12. Concluding remarks / Geoffrey D. Summers
  • Chapter 13. Turkish summary = Türkçe özet / Çeviren Güzin Eren.