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Pulur / Sakyol |
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Mound | |||||
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Altitude:
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800 m | |||||
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Eastern Anatolia | |||||
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Province:
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Tunceli | |||||
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District:
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Çemisgezek | |||||
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Village:
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Sakyol | |||||
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Destruction :
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Dams | |||||
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Not visited - 15/7/2003 | |||||
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| Location: It was located immediate northeast of the village; 45 km northwest the Elazig Province before it was flooded by the Keban Dam. It was named after the nearest village as Sakyol/Pulur (some publications refer to as Pulur/Sakyol). Pulur was its former name; but its recent name is Sakyol. Unlike the naming of other mounds; both names are used. Pulur is the correct one; but in order to prevent any confusion with other mounds named Pulur; Pulur/Sakyol is preferred. The excavator uses both names alternately. However; K. Kökten who discovered this mound refers to it as Kültepe at Pulur [Kökten 1947:462]. |
| Geography and Environment: The mound was located 4-5 km far from the place where the Murat and Karasu streams join. It measured 20 m in height above the plain together with the natural hill underneath and 80x120 m in dimensions. It was a medium sized mound. It had steep slopes and a flat top hill. The thickness of the cultural deposit was measured around 13-15 m after the excavation. Even before submerged; it had been severely damaged by the modern village obscuring it. |
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