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Surroundings:

Bira CastleThe statue of goddess Kubaba from Birecik

Location:

  • Türkiye, Uğurcuk
  • geo:37.059605,37.97567
  • Location ± 25-100 m.

Period or year:

  • -3000~ / unknown

Class:

  • Grave or burial field
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=25796

Annotations

The Persian-period burials at Hacinebi most likely Mesopotamian or Persian high-ranking personnel in a Persian military garrison1

  1. Gil J. Stein, “Persians on the Euphrates?: Two Achaemenid Burials from Hacınebi, southeast Turkey”, 2014
  2. Chris Allen, The Uruk world system and Hacinebi, Birkbeck Certificate in Ancient Near Eastern & Aegean Studies.Prehistory of the Ancient Near East (10,000-3500 BC., 2012 - https://www.academia.edu/3024132

References

  1. I suggest that the individuals in the Hacınebi burials were most likely Mesopotamian or Persian high-ranking personnel in a Persian military garrison guarding this key route of communication near the Royal Road to Sardis. Taken together, textual, iconographic, and archaeological data on burial practices, military garrisons, and material culture styles at Hacınebi highlight the complex hybrid identities and cultural koine that linked Persian and non-Persian elites across the cosmopolitan Achaemenid empire.mation about social identity.


Nearby

Hacınebi Tepe

Ancient settlement at Uğurcuk village.

Bira Castle (3 km)

Bira Castle

Kubaba of Birecik (3 km)

Stele currently in British Museum.


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