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S 63/15
Type:
Mound
Altitude:
940 m
Region:
Southeastern Anatolia
Province:
Siirt
District:
Kurtalan
Village:
Gürgöze
Investigation Method:
Survey
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It is situated to the south-southwest of the Kuyucak meadow, west-northwest of the Gürgöze (Aynik) Village in Siirt. With a height of 2 m, it is 50 m long in north-south direction, and 75 m in east-west direction. It is a deserted hill only with building remains. A road divides the mound in half. There is a water spring 50 m to the northeast. It contains probably the plain ware belonging to the first half of the 1st Millennium BC, and a similar group of red coated, burnished and wheelmade ware (particularly seen at Nemrut, Tell Halaf's Kabara level, Amique phase O, Syro-Hittite level at Hama and Palestinian Early Iron Age II).
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