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Cemetery |
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Altitude:
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Region:
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Aegean |
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Province:
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Mugla |
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District:
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Milas |
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Village:
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Çakiralan |
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Investigation Method:
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Excavation |
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| Location: It is situated within Çakiralan Village boundaries in Milas District of Mugla Province. |
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| History: |
| Research and Excavation: During the public utilities' decoupage works at Yenikoy, 1 km south of the village a grave was revealed. In 2006, excavations on the grave began under the supervision of the Directorate of Milas Museum's and later carried out by Lagina excavation team. The excavations continued with a team from the Milas Museum in 2011. In 2013, 33 graves were moved to Ören Archaeopark. |
| Stratigraphy: |
| Small Finds: During 2008 excavations 4 EBA, 9 Late Geometric Period, 19 Classic period, and 28 Hellenistic period graves were revealed. The 2011-2012 excavation seasons yielded 1 Late Protogeometric and 85 Late Geometric graves. There are 19 graves dated to the Classical Period in the Late Geometric necropolis. The graves dated to Late Gerometric period were revealed at the necropole area located on the southwest slopes of the north hill. All graves were built in knit vessel type and untouched contexts were encountered. Iron razor, tweezers and whetstone were also found in the grave where cremation burial inside amphora was found. That suggests the grave belonged to a barber [Tırpan-Söğüt (Z. Gider) 2010.516-517]. The 2013 excavations yielded 52 Late Geometric graves [Özbey 2015:236]. 19 Late Geometric graves were exposed during the 2014 excavations. The graves consist of chamber burials with dromoi, woven vessels, plate vessels, rock-cut tombs, rock-cut plate vessels, woven-plate vessels and urn graves. Among the Late Geometric graves, burials and burial goods dated to the Archaic and Classical periods were found. This indicates that the graves were reused during these periods. The walls of chamber burials become narrow towards the ceiling. There are graves with dromoi. The graves contain a shelf arrangement of stone slabs in which the burial goods placed or the deceased lay. The niches in the burial chambers were used for burial goods or urns. Except for amphora, the other type of vessel used as urn is kotyle. Labryses, fibulae, rings, hairpins, bracelets, beads and necklaces, kraters, skyphoi, kotyles, aryballoi, oinochoai, cups and amphoriskoi were left as burial goods [Özbey 2014:40-8]. |
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