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Surroundings:

Salur Höyük

Location:

  • Türkiye, Ekinözü
  • geo:37.348331,33.361111
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -2xx~ / unknown

Class:

  • Vicus or canabae
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=24065

Annotations

Kerti Hüyük lies 3.5 km north of Ekinözü Village; northeast of Karaman Province. 

After discovered in 1956 inscription on the stone Kerti Hüyük is considered the most likely Derbe.1

The mound yielded potsherds belonging to Bronze Age, Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Period.

Sources:

  1. Michael Ballance, The Site of Derbe: A New Inscription, Anatolian Studies Vol. 7 (1957), pp. 147-151
  2. https://www.bibleplaces.com/derbelystra/
  3. http://www.tayproject.org/TAYages.fm$Retrieve?CagNo=4041&html=ages_detail_e.html&layout=web

References

  1. Michael Ballance, The Site of Derbe: A New Inscription, Anatolian Studies Vol. 7 (1957), pp. 147-151


Nearby

Salur Necropolis [Çorum] (5 km)

EBA pithos burials.

Salur Höyük [Çorum] (5 km)

EBA Mound and Cemetery.

Canhasan (9 km)

Canhasan


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