Coba Höyük, also known as Sakçe Gözü or Sakçagözü, is an archaeological site in southeastern Anatolia. It is located about three kilometres north-west of the modern village of Sakçagözü in

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. The site was occupied in the

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, Halaf, Ubaid, Late Chalcolithic/

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periods. The site has now been destroyed by modern activities.

History

The site appears to have been occupied on and off from the second half of the seventh millennium BC until the first millennium BC. The excavations were small scale and an exact stratigraphical sequence cannot reliably be constructed.

Iron Age

In the first millennium BC the site was part of a

state, the name of the city is not known. City walls and a palace of the bit-hilani type were found at the site and date to around 730-700 B.C.

Archaeology

Lion Hunting Scene - 750 BC - Pergamon Museum - Joy of Museums

The site was visited by Mary Scott Stevenson in 1881 who noted that there were three basalt orthostats depicting a lion hunt on the wall of a private home there. The site visited by Karl Humann and Felix von Luschan in 1890 where they made some sketches and also removed the three orthostats to take to the

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was the first excavator in 1908 and 1911. He was interested in the Hittite material on the surface of the site and discovered the portico of a bit hilani Hittite palace, now in

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, as well as the earliest excavated Halaf period material culture. The site was re-excavated in 1949 by a team led by John d'Arcy Waechter, after the removal of the portico by the Turkish authorities in 1939 at the outbreak of the

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clearing the surface of the mound.du Plat Taylor, J., Seton Williams, M. V., and Waechter, J., "The Excavations at Sakce Gözü", Iraq, vol. 12, no. 2. pp. 53–138, 1950 Objects excavated at Sakçagözü can be found at museums such as the Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin, the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara, and the Istanbul Museum of Ancient Oriental Works. Coba bowls were named after their first description from the excavations at Coba Höyük.

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Reliefs
from Sakçagözü on the "Hittite monuments" website.

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History

Iron Age

Archaeology

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