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Site Number 133
Name KM 133
Description Flattened site
Site Name Dedepaşahöyük
Survey Date 1994-08-24
Survey Year 1994
Collectors (Initials) All
Map sheet no. M37-c3
Grid Location EW 135.0
Grid Location NS 545.0
Height 0.5
Diameter 188.0
Site Size (2) 2.7759112687
Local Landmarks Next to stream on northern edge of deposit, flattened site, near site 131 which could be major site in the area.
Site Description Only indication of occupation now is slight difference in soil coloration, general agricultural soil is grey-black, occupation soils have a more brownish red tint. Size of site is difficult to estimate since original mound may have been spread over fields. Some indication that it is primarily a single period site, rich collection, should be studied again. Some indication of ceramic production, scraping tools, some overfired pieces.
Survey Conditions(include time spent on site) Good, collected in sections
Collection Comments More or less a single period site with some few Ubaid type sherds. Hundreds of chaff-faced simple ware bowls “flint-scraped” is it really ceramic scraper. Typical ware=heavy chaff and some white and black grit temper, core is never completely oxidized, paste is orange red to red, to brown red. Occasionally a cream slip which is used, but it seems to have a tendency to wear off and thus it’s difficult to guess at proportions from surface materials. Striations on flat-base interiors look like wheel finishing; scrapers? Forms plain bowls both straight sided and rounded in different sized prominent form, deep bowl, globular body. Bowls with slightly thickened or rolled rim--these have a tendency to be slipped; rolled rim open forms with straight walls--these could be stands. Same rim is used on tall necked jars, can be flat-topped or everted, One flat top bowl form appears to be made in grey, series of low necked jars; could be a production site; tons of material.
Collection Summary Sherd count Flint count
Flint count 8
Obsidian count 13
Neolithic note (CE has it listed in her 12-02 diss revisions as positive attribution- light colored block)
Halaf note (CE has it listed in her 12-02 diss revisions as positive attribution)
Ubaid note Ubaid related//(CE has it listed in her 12-02 diss revisions as positive attribution - light colored block)
Uruk note SC 9-98 noted late Uruk stand ring
Chalcolithic note Chaff-faced simple, white slipped, late incised cf Sakcegözu// Marcella Frangipane felt it was early end of Chalco (a/c to EC); (SC 9-98 Chalco present as well as a number of rims which in shape are Uruk related (late-ish Chalco possible) 133-455 Ubaid white paste/slip painted,451 Incised sherd ,450 post Halaf bichrome (full-on Ubaid) ,454 (Ubaid poss tail end - could be early Chalco) and 2 unnumbered sherds - one late Halaf to post Halaf and another poss Neolithic incised or post Halaf (Thumbnail impressed)//(CE has it listed in her 12-02 diss revisions as positive attribution - light colored block)
Hellenistic Late Roman note 1 sherd black glaze Hellenistic Fine ware; others coarse late
Subregion Nothern Valley
Neolithic False
Halaf, Ubaid, Uruk True
Chalcolithic True
Early Bronze False
Early Bronze, Middle Bronze False
Middle Bronze False
Late Bronze False
Iron Age False
Hellenistic, Roman True
Medieval False
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Suggested Citation

Elizabeth Carter. (2025) "KM 133 from Asia/Turkey/Kahramanmaraş Survey Area". In Kahramanmaraş Survey. Elizabeth Carter (Ed). Released: In prep. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/31021ed6-29e0-4766-9617-fba8e83fd0e0>

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