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An Early Bronze Age Shrine at Beycesultan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2015

Seton Lloyd  and
James Mellaart
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Previous preliminary reports in this journal have dealt with the results of excavations at Beycesultan conducted by our Institute in 1954 and 1955. Excavations in 1956 were on a slightly reduced scale, occupying the period of six weeks from the beginning of June until mid-July. During that time most of our energies were concentrated on a major sounding, whose purpose was to investigate the Early Bronze Age occupations of the site. By the end of the season's work, this sounding had not yet been completed. A level had been reached corresponding to one of the early sub-divisions of the Second Settlement at Troy; but at this point it was estimated that some 9 metres of occupational debris remained to be excavated, before the original virgin soil was likely to appear. Under these circumstances it has been considered that any report on our stratigraphical results would for the present be premature and should await the completion of the sounding during the course of the coming season. The notes which follow are concerned with a single isolated discovery, made in the fifteenth occupation level—the deepest to which we have yet penetrated—shortly before the temporary suspension of our work in July, 1956.

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Research Article
Information
Anatolian Studies , Volume 7 , December 1957 , pp. 27 - 36
Copyright
Copyright © The British Institute at Ankara 1957

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References

1 Anatolian Studies V, 1955 and VI, 1956Google Scholar.

2 DrLamb, W. has published a very full and well-documented discussion of such shrines in Anatolian Studies VI, 1956, under the title: “Some Early Anatolian ShrinesGoogle Scholar.”

3 As only part of the shrine has been cleared, this note is necessarily of a preliminary nature.

4 Two perforated stone discs and three spindle whorls are the only other objects found in the shrine.

5 See the article “Anatolian chronology in the Early and Middle Bronze Age”, p. 55.

6 AS. IV (1954), pp. 202 ffGoogle Scholar.