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Site Number 227
Name KM 227
GPS True
Description Lion
Site Name Demirciler Hillside
Survey Date 1994-09-22
Survey Year 1994
Collectors (Initials) EC,LB,MK,NK
Map sheet no. N38-a4
Grid Location EW 260.0
Grid Location NS 366.0
Local Landmarks Village of Demırcıler at foot of hills along Aksu, Gök Pinar
Site Description Stepped stone quarry site with large gate lion on angle, possibly in place, one side is unfinished. NK says paws are like the Carchemish watergate gate lions, eye and open mouth and top of head visible. Unfinished because its a gate lion or just unfinished because it was incomplete
Survey Conditions(include time spent on site) Good general, but nothing found but a few flints--no real sherdage
Collection Comments Ground stone axe, miscellaneous flint bits and one handle, need full search for quarry debris
Collection Summary Flint count
Flint count 2
Neolithic note (CE has it listed in her 12-02 diss revisions as positive attribution)
Iron Age note yes - lion
Subregion Central Valley
Neolithic False
Halaf, Ubaid, Uruk False
Chalcolithic False
Early Bronze False
Early Bronze, Middle Bronze False
Middle Bronze False
Late Bronze False
Iron Age True
Hellenistic, Roman False
Medieval False
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Suggested Citation

Elizabeth Carter. (2024) "KM 227 from Asia/Turkey/Kahramanmaraş Survey Area". In Kahramanmaraş Survey. Elizabeth Carter (Ed). Released: In prep. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/1f4caf20-2729-4715-ae99-b615d022fa0b>

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