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Sultantepe: Anglo-Turkish Joint Excavations, 1952

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

Seton Lloyd  and
Nuri Gokçe
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The First Season's excavating at Sultantepe, occupying a period of four weeks in May–June 1951, has already received preliminary notices in Anatolian Studies, II, etc. The mound (see Figure 1), which is situated at a distance of 10 miles from Urfa on the road leading to the ruins of ancient Harran, is too conspicuous a landmark to have escaped the notice of travelling scholars in the past; but no record of their visits has ever been published and its selection for excavations in 1951 was the result of a systematic investigation into the historical topography of the Harran region, initiated by the Institute in the summer of 1950 (cf. Anatolian Studies, I, pp. 77 ff.).

The excavations were resumed on 8th May 1952 and the second season's work lasted until 20th June. The field-directorship was again jointly in the hands of Bay Nuri Gökçe, Director of the Hittite Museum at Ankara, and Mr. Seton Lloyd, Director of the Institute. They were assisted on this occasion by Dr. O. R. Gurney, as epigraphist, Mr. J. D. Evans (Institute Fellow for 1951–52), and Bay Burhan Tozcan, as field-assistants, and Mr. G. R. H. Wright, as architect.

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Anatolian Studies , Volume 3 , December 1953 , pp. 27 - 47
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Copyright © The British Institute at Ankara 1953

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page 42 note 1 Most pertinent to the attempted restoration of this portico is a recent article by Frankfort on “The Origin of the Bit Hilani” (Iraq, XIV, Part 2). In some instances of the true North Syrian hilani, such as that at Tell Halaf, a central support to the portico does occur. But here it is understandable, since the supports, with their sculptured figures, are themselves architectural features of some individuality. But Frankfort distinguishes these from the Assyrian colonnades which, as for instance at Arslantaş, could be used “to connect two courts”, and he quotes the famous reference in an inscription of Sargon II to a hilani portico, composed of four cedar columns and placed “in front of the gates of the palace” An even number of columns, in fact, seems to have been the rule with Assyrian architects.

page 42 note 2 An outcrop of this stone occurs at Anas Hüyük (ancient Dora), on the east bank of the Culab river, some 13 m iles east of Urfa.