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Kenan Tepe
Kenan Tepe is an ancient Near East archaeological site located within the Diyarbakır Province in the Ilisu dam upper Tigris River region in the southeast of modern Turkey near the borders of modern Syria and Iraq, about 12 kilometers east of the modern town of Bismil and on the north bank of the Tigris river. It lies 15 kilometers to the northeast of the site of Ziyaret Tepe and 12 kilometers to the west of Salat Tepe. The site was one of several examined by the Upper Tigris Archaeological Research Project in preparation for flooding resulting from the construction of the Ilisu Dam, including Boztepe and Talavas Tepe.
An archaeological survey of the region in the 1990s found a number of potential excavation targets including Giricano, Ziyaret Tepe, Gre Dimse, Boztepe, Salat Tepe, and Kenan Tepe. Kenan Tepe covers an area of about 4.5 hectares with a 1.1 hectare upper mound (built up on a natural hill) and a east and northeast (350 meters by 200 meters ) lower town with the upper mound rising 32.6 meters above the plain. The upper mound has a medieval period cemetery. The lower town is partly eroded by the Tigris river at the southern edge.
The site was worked from 2000 until 2008 by the Upper Tigris Archaeological Research Project team led by Bradley J. Parker. The 2003, 2006 and 2008 season were study seasons. Four Ubaid period occupational levels were determined with structures as large as 7 meters by 9 meters and with a number of burials including a complete skeleton in a large ceramic jar. Ubaid period finds included a number of chert and green obsidian tools, blades and arrowheads, ceramic spindle whorls and Coba bowls. A Uruk period fortification wall around the high mound turned up in gravimetric and excavation work. In the Late Chalcolithic level ceramic animal figurines were found as well as mudbrick burial structures and intrusive Early Bronze tombs. A hematite cylinder seal of uncertain date bearing a contest scene, possibly early 2nd millennium BC, and a Middle Bronze period anthropomorphic figurine head. Two stamp seals, eight more cylinder seals, two seal impressions and eight possible sealing made up the glyphic finds.
Six excavation areas were dug:
Kenan Tepe was occupied in five periods:
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Kenan Tepe
Kenan Tepe is an ancient Near East archaeological site located within the Diyarbakır Province in the Ilisu dam upper Tigris River region in the southeast of modern Turkey near the borders of modern Syria and Iraq, about 12 kilometers east of the modern town of Bismil and on the north bank of the Tigris river. It lies 15 kilometers to the northeast of the site of Ziyaret Tepe and 12 kilometers to the west of Salat Tepe. The site was one of several examined by the Upper Tigris Archaeological Research Project in preparation for flooding resulting from the construction of the Ilisu Dam, including Boztepe and Talavas Tepe.
An archaeological survey of the region in the 1990s found a number of potential excavation targets including Giricano, Ziyaret Tepe, Gre Dimse, Boztepe, Salat Tepe, and Kenan Tepe. Kenan Tepe covers an area of about 4.5 hectares with a 1.1 hectare upper mound (built up on a natural hill) and a east and northeast (350 meters by 200 meters ) lower town with the upper mound rising 32.6 meters above the plain. The upper mound has a medieval period cemetery. The lower town is partly eroded by the Tigris river at the southern edge.
The site was worked from 2000 until 2008 by the Upper Tigris Archaeological Research Project team led by Bradley J. Parker. The 2003, 2006 and 2008 season were study seasons. Four Ubaid period occupational levels were determined with structures as large as 7 meters by 9 meters and with a number of burials including a complete skeleton in a large ceramic jar. Ubaid period finds included a number of chert and green obsidian tools, blades and arrowheads, ceramic spindle whorls and Coba bowls. A Uruk period fortification wall around the high mound turned up in gravimetric and excavation work. In the Late Chalcolithic level ceramic animal figurines were found as well as mudbrick burial structures and intrusive Early Bronze tombs. A hematite cylinder seal of uncertain date bearing a contest scene, possibly early 2nd millennium BC, and a Middle Bronze period anthropomorphic figurine head. Two stamp seals, eight more cylinder seals, two seal impressions and eight possible sealing made up the glyphic finds.
Six excavation areas were dug:
Kenan Tepe was occupied in five periods: