Descriptive Attribute	Value(s)
Site Number	21
GPS	True
Name	KM 21
Site Name	Sivrimine Tepe
Description	Sivrimine
Survey Date	1993-09-30
Survey Year	1993
Collectors (Initials)	EC,KC,MD,BP
Previous Work	need to check the Istanbul files for any mention of this site. There is a trench excavated on the south side of the tell and some indication of (probably illegal) excavation into the EB tomb groups or generally the EB area on the east side fo the north mound., and on the east side of the south mound. Note that the satellite photos show there is a lower town girdle . Note that it is possible that the notes added here from Stuart actually belong to KM 17 (need to consult my original notes to determine) 2011--Rebagged, lots of EBA, did not see much LLC but EBA everywhere, Hellenistic dark on light ware cups, fish plates, eastern sigilllata
Map sheet no.	N37-b4
Grid Location EW	66.0
Grid Location NS	343.0
Length	280.0
Width	60.0
Diameter	70.0
Site Size (1)	1.68
Site Size (2)	0.3848451001
Local Landmarks	Next to pole Easton 1990 BIII-11 slong train line adjacent to Adana Road (Roll3-34 from high mound to NE
Setting	Irrigated fields along canal, cotton corn, sugar beet
Site Description	Two mounds with a low saddle empty of occupation in between one smaller and higher (h=26)=citadel to south east; the other larger 7 ha and lower (h=22) with some box-like rock-cut structures in between--are these robbed burials. Traces of city wall on n.e. side of lower mound. Both heavily disturbed by illicit digging (south mound may have trench by Alkim).
Survey Conditions(include time spent on site)	Good, cuts on both mounds collected separately, plus above and below ten m on citadel and top and slopes on main mound. Revisited and recollected 7/97, EC&LS. Top of south mound = LB/IA. Middle south mound and North mound - much EB and prob. new pits esp. on top and on east side.
Collection Comments	The high mound or south mound collected separately had many beaded rim fine ware bowls that could be Iron Age or Hellenistic making us think of a palace vs. an extensive lower town. Also some LBA and or Iron Age painted wares. Site should be studied with care since its a major collection. EBA also seems well represented. In contrast to later sites rope impressed wares limited to a few pieces--collection has reddish tinge like KM55 but high mound has many pieces of fine ware beaded rim bowls. Some wasters may indicate kiln on low mound. LS:Alalakh pl.7b CIX-CX ? cf. Porsuk pl. 70 ff MIA-LIA also see KM 40 C cut 2, orange clay grey core carinated bowl with open lip and thinned outflaring rim. Also see Koructepe III Van Loon pl. 4 & 18 g for MB - LB shapes - p 18g = orange slipped ware with high ring base. Fingernail impressed in double row on body = Tell Fekheriyeh III p. XXXVIII:15 p. 84. and wavy incised between 2 horizontal incised lines pl. XXXVIII:16.
Collection Summary	Sherd count
Flint count	25
Handles count	50
Halaf note	1 normal painted sherd and 1 painted orange (SC)//(CE has it listed in her 12-02 diss revisions as positive attribution)
Uruk note	2 hammer rim plates chaff tempered (SC - but are from road nearest IA sculpture find - LS)
Chalcolithic note	Presence noted (SC 9-98)//(CE has it listed in her 12-02 diss revisions as positive attribution)
Early Bronze Age plain note	fine
Early Bronze Age decorated note	Brittle orange
Middle Bronze Age note	So far only EB/MBA transition (6-00) Need to check further; Pc of interior brushed ware on south mound. 21D - 1 pc interior brushed, exterior brown flat; Lidar-like slashed incised ridge ware - can also be EB-MB trans as in Amuq and T&C fig B23:26LDS 9-98
Late Bronze Age note	Painted//2 poss LB (or maybe later) jars on north mound. Some EB in south mound. 1 straight burnished handle - Hittite suggestive (not pulled but sketched in notebook #4
Iron Age note	painted? black on red bowl//or poss. earlier - Lidar-like slashed incised ridge ware - can also be EB-MB trans LDS 9-98) //red striped piece not early//hatched painted pc. too soft for Ubaid, doesn't look Ubaid per SC 9-98 and black on orange piece is poss too hard fired for Halaf.
Hellenistic Late Roman note	Hellenistic fine ware of all types; Dipsi Faraj applied worm handle (SC)
Medieval note	Islamic corrugated fineware (SC)
Subregion	Southwestern Valley
Neolithic	False
Halaf, Ubaid, Uruk	True
Chalcolithic	True
Early Bronze	True
Early Bronze, Middle Bronze	True
Middle Bronze	False
Late Bronze	True
Iron Age	True
Hellenistic, Roman	True
Medieval	True