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Excavations at Beycesultan, 1958

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

Seton Lloyd,
James Mellaart and
David Stronach
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The fifth season of excavation at Beycesultan took place in May and June of 1958. In addition to the Director and Mr. James Mellaart, the staff included Mr. David Wilson (Institute joint-scholar for 1958), Mrs. Selina Tomlin as architect and Bay Osman Aksoy representing the Turkish Government. In this season two main tasks remained to be completed. One of these was the clearance of a large religious building, of the “Burnt Palace” period (Level V), one corner of which had been uncovered in 1957, beneath the Late Bronze Age shrines in Area “R”. The other was the completion of the deep sounding (“SX”) in the Chalcolithic levels, begun in 1957. Mr. Mellaart took charge of this latter operation and has summarised the results in a separate section of this report. Those of his own 1958 excavations at Hacılar, near Burdur, whose stratigraphical implications are closely related, also appear elsewhere.

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Anatolian Studies , Volume 9 , December 1959, pp. 35 - 50
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Copyright © The British Institute at Ankara 1959

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References

1 Sesklo white on red ware (A3α) and red on white (A3β) wares; Wace-Thompson, , Prehistoric Thessaly, p. 14Google Scholar. Also E.H.3 white on black Hagia Marina ware in Central Greece, and black on buff ware in Southern Greece.

2 About forty out of a total of c. 100,000 (!) which incidentally shows the danger of digging on too limited a scale.

3 Garstang, J., Prehistoric Mersin, Fig. 72: 2 (XIX)Google Scholar; Fig. 74: 6 (XVIII–XVII).

4 The rather unusual Halaf shapes, ibid. Fig. 72: 5 and 10 are not unlike our white-painted bowls either.

5 Athen. Mitth. LX, 112 ffGoogle Scholar. and PPS. XXII, 1956, Fig. 6: F70 and F69Google Scholar. Only a single pedestal was found at Beycesultan in the Late Chalcolithic.

6 Prehistoric Mersin, Fig. 118: 1, 3, 4, 10, 11, 13, 14.

7 ibid., p. 198, where they are provisionally dated to Late Troy I. This cautious date is far too low and based on the fact that white-painted pottery had not yet been found in pre-Troy I levels anywhere else.

8 See above, pp. 38 and 43.

9 Garstang, J., Prehistoric Mersin, 1953, Figs. 50, 69, 80bGoogle Scholar and 85.

10 Ghirshman, R., Fouilles de Sialk I, 1938, p. 16Google Scholar and Pl. LII, 49, 53–6 and 58.

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13 M. E. L. Mallowan and J. Cruikshank Rose, op. cit., loc. cit.

14 See M. E. L. Mallowan and J. Cruikshank Rose, op. cit., loc. cit.

15 I am indebted to J. Mellaart for drawing my attention to much unpublished material in this connection.

16 See above, p. 39 (fig. 2), and p. 43, also Pl. IIIa.

17 Cf. the distinct tangs found on similar tools from Sialk. R. Ghirshman, op. cit., loc. cit.