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Alahan Monastery, Fifth Preliminary Report*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

Michael Gough
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In 1967, a fifth season of excavation was completed at Alahan. Work, which began on 5th July and continued until 29th August, was carried out by a labour force of twenty-five workmen, of whom Ahmet Kaya, Aslan Şahin and Süleyman Uysal have not missed a season since the first exploratory sounding made on the site of the Basilica in 1955. Apart from the Director and Mrs. Gough, the members of the staff were Messrs. G. Bakker, P. Pratt and R. Wylie, architects; Mrs. Bakker and Miss M. McGregor, inventory and conservation; Messrs. A. Ray and L. Thomas, site supervisors; Misses H. Cash and M. MacDonald, and Mr. P. Percival-Price, field-assistants. Bayan Nihal Dönmez represented the Ministry of Education, and to her the expedition is grateful for practical help on many occasions. Our thanks are also due to the Institute's Council of Management, to the Russell Trust and to a private subscriber in Ankara for the funds which made the season a success.

Apart from the archaeological results, the year 1967 provided two further reasons for special gratification. As a recognition of Alahan's status as a major site in exceptionally beautiful surroundings (Pl. LVI), a good road has now been built up the mountain slope under the auspices of the Ministry of Tourism.

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Research Article
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Anatolian Studies , Volume 18 , December 1968 , pp. 159 - 167
Copyright
Copyright © The British Institute at Ankara 1968

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References

1 It is illustrated in AS. XII, Pl. XXVIII (a) and (b); also Pl. XXIX (b).

2 It was, in fact, used as the threshold of the secondary church built inside the Basilica. It may be seen in Fig. 1 of my article “The Church of the Evangelists at Alahan”, AS. XII, p. 175Google Scholar.

3 Usually dated c. 475.

4 AS. XII, ibid., p. 180.

5 p. III, Fig. 3, and p. 112, Fig. 4.

6 ibid., Pl. XXXIII (a) and (b), and Verzone, , Alahan Monastir, Turin, 1956, Fig. 65Google Scholar.

7 Gough, M., “Alahan Monastery: Fourth Preliminary Report,” AS. XVII, pp. 39–40Google Scholar.