John Garstang and Sakçagözü Excavations (1908-1911)

Year 2019, Volume: 34 Issue: 2, 369 - 386, 30.12.2019

Ali Çifçi

https://doi.org/10.18513/egetid.661552

Abstract

Sakçagözü, located in the Nurdağı district of Gaziantep province, was excavated by John Garstang between 1908 and 1911 during two excavation seasons. Of the 11 identified layers, IX. and X. contain the Neo-Hittite palace enclosure, which was surrounded by walls and had a ‘bit hilani’ structure decorated with reliefs. The excavation records, photographs and materials held at the University of Liverpool’s Garstang Museum of Archaeology, as well as materials held at the Archaeological Museum of İstanbul were utilised for this study. Garstang’s relations with the director of the Imperial Museum Osman Hamdi Bey, and Sir Edwin Pears from the British Consulate in İstanbul at the time, will also be considered. I will also consider how Garstang obtained the excavation permit for the Sakçagözü and his subsequent interest in the Neo-Hittite reliefs found here.

Keywords

John Garstang, Sakçagözü, Coba Höyük, Neo-Hittite, reliefs

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