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Descriptive Attribute Value(s)
Site Number 4
Name KM 4
GPS True
Description Eşkhamzahöyük
Site Name Eşekhamza (Donkey)
Survey Date 1993-09-24
Survey Year 1993
Collectors (Initials) All
Map sheet no. N37-b1
Grid Location EW 13.6
Grid Location NS 39.2
Height 9.0
Diameter 100.0
Site Size (2) 0.7853981634
Local Landmarks Poles 43/15-43/22 on rail line, south of tracks, surrounded by canal, cement block on site
Setting Corn, cotton, wet, Gölühöyük visible to E, Korocu to the W. Recent campsite on top
Site Description Oval mound terrace areas on three sides, higher than it appears
Survey Conditions(include time spent on site) Good, terrace collection produced few sherds
Collection Comments Three decorated handles: 1 with applied wavy band, one with incision, one with paint; one distinctive ware type buff with interior lines, 1 two strand handle, 1 red painted. Cut produced 1 fine Hellenistic? bowl
Collection Summary Ground Stone Sherd count
Handles count 18
Halaf note (CE has it listed in her 12-02 diss revisions as positive attribution)
Ubaid note No. Removed from site attribution with EFC on April 2003//Ubaid, 1 sherd// a possible but not absolute (SC 9-98)//(CE has it listed in her 12-02 diss revisions as positive attribution)
Middle Bronze Age note Amuq J combed ware LDS 9-98. Jars with everted overhanging rims.
Late Bronze Age note Painted, one handle, one fib heavy. Large jar.
Iron Age note bowl like Abou Danne (9th-6th c)
Hellenistic Late Roman note Pie crust rim, ticked rim bowl, bowl with rope impression under rim
Medieval note Possible
Subregion Central Valley
Neolithic False
Halaf, Ubaid, Uruk False
Chalcolithic False
Early Bronze False
Early Bronze, Middle Bronze True
Middle Bronze True
Late Bronze True
Iron Age True
Hellenistic, Roman False
Medieval True
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Suggested Citation

Elizabeth Carter. (2024) "KM 4 from Asia/Turkey/Kahramanmaraş Survey Area". In Kahramanmaraş Survey. Elizabeth Carter (Ed). Released: In prep. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/c4bd7919-6137-490a-9ab0-15a63d530e0b>

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