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Site Number 29
Name KM 29
Site Name Kabaktepe 1
Description Kabaktepe
Survey Date 1993-10-02
Survey Year 1993
Collectors (Initials) EC,KC,BP,MD
Map sheet no. 37SCB
Grid Location EW 41.0
Grid Location NS 268.0
Local Landmarks Village of Çamlıgecit; overlooks road between Adana and the village
Setting Old lake edge, tombs cut into rocky hillside
Site Description Extensively robbed cemetery site with shaft tombs on rocky knolls. Hillside of holes, tombs were apparently marked with rock piles. Roll4 to 31, 32=NE sectory on EC camera, to 21 on Brad. Detailed photos and drawings of best preserved tomb. Does not appear to have occupation debris.
Survey Conditions(include time spent on site) Good but much disturbance
Collection Comments There are many red fruitstands some with incised decoration; there is also fine greenish buff ware, but is this assemblage EB or Hellenistic or both. Some of the stands are wheel made and clearly late as is the lamp frag., but some looks EB--check later.
Collection Summary Sherd count
Uruk note droopy spout (SC 9-98) Liz says this is probably an EB spout and so removed this attribution (4-2003)
Early Bronze Age plain note fine??
Early Bronze Age decorated note Brittle orange?? Photographed sherds look like incised brittle orange - classic examples (6-00)
Middle Bronze Age note none (LDS 9-98)
Late Bronze Age note none (LDS 9-98)
Iron Age note none (LDS 9-98) but note comment about 1 possible Chalco or IA platter bowl (LDS 9-98)
Hellenistic Late Roman note Hellenistic fine (questionable 6-00) per Liz removed attribution for this site (although EFC says there may be Hellenistic at nearby sites.
Subregion Southwestern Valley
Neolithic False
Halaf, Ubaid, Uruk False
Chalcolithic False
Early Bronze True
Early Bronze, Middle Bronze False
Middle Bronze False
Late Bronze False
Iron Age False
Hellenistic, Roman False
Medieval False
km-29-pg-1.pdf
km-29-pg-2.pdf
km-29-pg-3.pdf
km-29-general-view.jpg
km-29-mound.jpg
km-29-single-burial.jpg
km-29-ne-sector-1.jpg
km-29-ne-sector-3.jpg
km-29-ne-sector-2.jpg
km-29-n-side.jpg
Suggested Citation

Elizabeth Carter. (2025) "KM 29 from Asia/Turkey/Kahramanmaraş Survey Area". In Kahramanmaraş Survey. Elizabeth Carter (Ed). Released: In prep. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/902cab31-0566-4a7e-99f3-2d7eebfb62c7>

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