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Surroundings:

Gre Virike, Shft graveŞaraga, Pottery KilnsKelekli SteleKelekli, Stele of Suhis IIThe statue of goddess Kubaba from BirecikBira Castle

Location:

  • Türkiye, Elifoğlu
  • geo:36.97031,37.997841
  • Location uncertain

Period or year:

  • -3500~ / 12xx

Class:

  • Rural settlement
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=51663

Annotations

Zeytinli Bahçe Höyük located 1.4 km north of Mezraa village, Sanliurfa Province. The mound was occupied from the Late Chalcolithic Period   ca. 3500 BC  until the Medieval Period. During the Middle Bronze it was a fortified citadel.

See:

  1. Francesca Balossi Restelli, Gian-Maria di Nocera, Marcella Frangipane: The Contribution of a Small Site to the Study of Settlement Changes on the Turkish Middle Euphrates between the Third and Second Millennium B.C : Preliminary Stratigraphic Data from Zeytinli Bahçe Höyük (Urfa). In: Sociétés humaines et changement climatique à la fin du troisième millénaire: une crise a-t-elle eu lieu en Haute Mésopotamie? Actes du Colloque de Lyon (5-8 décembre 2005), Varia Anatolica, 19, Istanbul : Institut Français d'Études Anatoliennes-Georges Dumézil, 2007. pp. 355-381.  - https://www.persee.fr/doc/anatv_1013-9559_2007_act_19_1_1107
  2. http://www.tayproject.org/TAYages.fm$Retrieve?CagNo=3343&html=ages_detail_e.html&layout=web

Nearby

Mezraa Teleilat (1 km)

A low mound on the east bank of the Euphrates, close to the border between Syria and Turkey. Salvage excavations were undertaken here around the year 2000. The site has yielded cuneiform finds

Gre Virike, Shaft grave (5 km)

Early Bronze Age grave.

Gre Virike Mound (5 km)

Gre Virike Mound, Early Bronze Age settlement.


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