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Site Number 5
Name KM 5
Site Name Altın
Description Altınhöyük
Survey Date 1993-09-24
Survey Year 1993
Collectors (Initials) All
Previous Work vanden osten 1930, 82, map 6
Map sheet no. 37SCB
Grid Location EW 14.3
Grid Location NS 38.9
Height 0.0
Local Landmarks S. of Gölühöyük, Cengis H. to NE 6km east of Adana road
Setting Plowed cotton fields in full bloom.
Site Description Site was found courtesy of owner who leveled at least two small mounds to plant them and collected some finds from a burial. Original heights are estimated by him at less than 5m, total area 40 donum. Could have been a small group or groups of farm houses.
Survey Conditions(include time spent on site) We walked the rows turned up by the plow between the cotton plants, and collected the plowed area between two remaining rises separately
Collection Comments Fine incised Islamic amphora, slashed green-glazed ware, 1 mold-made piece, one pie-crust rim with incision--these sites may have, numerous amphorae handles. L. Roman and possibly Hellenistic.
Handles count 35
Hellenistic Late Roman note Brittle ware, platter (sharpish angle) (SC 9-98)
Medieval note Islamic// late and goes way late (LDS 9-98)
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 False
Hellenistic, Roman True
Medieval True
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Suggested Citation

Elizabeth Carter. (2025) "KM 5 from Asia/Turkey/Kahramanmaraş Survey Area". In Kahramanmaraş Survey. Elizabeth Carter (Ed). Released: In prep. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/cc50e58c-677f-4c6d-b7b8-5907e9d4f023>

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