The 2009 and 2010 excavation campaigns by the joint Turco-Italian Expedition at Taşlı Geçit Höyük (Gaziantep, Turkey) aimed at shedding light on the urban layout of the site during the Bronze and Iron Ages. In the northernmost part of the acropolis (area A), a monumental fortress building dating from Late Bronze I was uncovered. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the stratigraphy and architecture of that building, as well as the associated materials. Fortress A is also discussed in the light of the defensive architectural tradition in Anatolia and Syria-Palestine during the Middle and Late Bronze Ages.
Giacomo Benati, Federico Zaina (2013). A Late Bronze Age I Fortress at Taṣlı Geçit Höyük and the Defensive Architecture of Anatolia and the Northern Levant during the 2nd Millennium BC. OCNUS, 21, 9-29.
A Late Bronze Age I Fortress at Taṣlı Geçit Höyük and the Defensive Architecture of Anatolia and the Northern Levant during the 2nd Millennium BC
BENATI, GIACOMO;ZAINA, FEDERICO
2013
Abstract
The 2009 and 2010 excavation campaigns by the joint Turco-Italian Expedition at Taşlı Geçit Höyük (Gaziantep, Turkey) aimed at shedding light on the urban layout of the site during the Bronze and Iron Ages. In the northernmost part of the acropolis (area A), a monumental fortress building dating from Late Bronze I was uncovered. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the stratigraphy and architecture of that building, as well as the associated materials. Fortress A is also discussed in the light of the defensive architectural tradition in Anatolia and Syria-Palestine during the Middle and Late Bronze Ages.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
