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Site Number 50
Name KM 50
Description Bieberhöyük, near Incirli
Site Name Bieberhöyük
Survey Date 1993-06-10
Survey Year 1993
Collectors (Initials) All
Map sheet no. 37SCB
Grid Location EW 189.0
Grid Location NS 256.0
Local Landmarks In village of Incili (figs), garden next to house
Setting Overlooks rocky hill side and wadi, near spring
Site Description Site is completely leveled and planted with eggplants, peppers, etc. not a höyük any more but surely was one. An Aramaen (?) stele is located in the front yard of a nearby house in this village. My photos until 34 are of this stele. Locals say that their father found it in the field near site 51 while plowing and set it up in their front yard. In Gaziantep province so that museum informed
Survey Conditions(include time spent on site) Terrible, in and among the vegetable rows, appears early
Collection Comments Village where we found stele but not much left of what was probably a major mound in town
Flint count 5
Neolithic note Coarse Simple with traces of reddish slip (could this be later actually ?)//(CE has it listed in her 12-02 diss revisions as positive attribution)
Iron Age note painted (prob later IA) LDS 12-98
Hellenistic Late Roman note Terra sigillata or imitation 1 piece
Medieval note glazed
Note about Unknown (LDS note 9-98) some KM50 drawn, but collection quite small from survey as site is a village built on rocky area of fairly thin soil. Site is where stelae was locateed though said to have come from area east of KM 40 to KM 50 (Emirler-Incirli) road, south of Emirler.
Subregion Southwestern Valley
Neolithic True
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 True
Medieval True
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Suggested Citation

Elizabeth Carter. (2024) "KM 50 from Asia/Turkey/Kahramanmaraş Survey Area". In Kahramanmaraş Survey. Elizabeth Carter (Ed). Released: In prep. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/280c39a7-d655-4ee5-97c6-bd504a876f13>

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