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and Neo-Hittite periods.

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. In the first millennium BC the site was part of a Neo-Hittite 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

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The site was first discovered in 1883 by Karl Humann and

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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 Hittite palace (a bit hilani), 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. 1950. "The Excavations at Sakce Gözü" ''Iraq''. Vol. 12, no. 2. pp. 53 Objects excavated at Sakçagözü can be found at museums such as the Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin, the

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Reliefs
from Sakçagözü on the "Hittite monuments" website.

References

*du Plat Taylor, J., Seton Williams, M. V., and Waechter, J. 1950. "The Excavations at Sakce Gözü" ''Iraq''. Vol. 12, no. 2. pp. 53–138. {{DEFAULTSORT:Coba Hoyuk Aramean cities Syro-Hittite states Former populated places in Turkey Archaeological sites in Southeastern Anatolia Halaf culture Late Neolithic

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