Anatolian Studies

Ptolemy II and Halicarnassus: An Honorary Decree

by Frost, Frank J.

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This white marble slab was cut into its present shape when the verso was incised for use as a decorative panel. An unknown amount of text is therefore missing on all sides, while a few spots in the middle make for difficult reading because of patches of mortar and some pick mark…

An Experiment in Water-Sieving

by French, D. H.

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A great deal is being written about the methods of analysing data after it has been collected on an archaeological site; very little, however, has been said about the methods by which the data is retrieved. It may be that the two are not really separate.Since the appearance of A…

Some evidence for syntactic stress in Hittite

by Durnford, S.P.B.

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In Anatolian Studies, Vol. XIII, 1963, there appeared I. McNeill's “The Metre of the Hittite Epic”, known here as MHE. Some implications of MHE are explored below with regard to sentence stress in Hittite.In MHE Mr. McNeill shows that the Hittite Song of Ullikummi has a stress-b…

Iron Age Pottery from the provinces of Tokat and Sivas

by Durbin, Gail E. S.

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This article is based on material collected by Charles Burney, who carried out a survey of the province of Tokat and the northern part of the Sivas province in 1955. His aim was to study the pre-Classical remains of the area and pottery from the Chalcolithic period to the Iron A…

The Gorgoromeis

by Hall, A. S.

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An inscription giving the name of this otherwise unknown community was discovered by J. R. S. Sterrett in the West Taurus Lake District, during his 1885 Wolfe Expedition, in the large village of Ortakaraviran, which lies north-east of Suğla Gölü (the ancient Trogitis lacus), on …

Early Neolithic Skeletons from Çatal Hüyük: Demography and Pathology

by Angel, J. Lawrence

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The opportunity to study the early farming population at Çatal Hüyük came to me through the foresight and kindness of the excavator, Mr. James Mellaart, and the successive Directors of the British Archaeological Institute Mr. Michael Gough and Dr. David French. I am most gratefu…

A New Water Separation Process for soil from Archaeological Excavations

by Weaver, M. E.

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Early in 1970 David French asked me to try to find a solution to the problem of dealing with the large amount of very fine material which passed through his new archaeological sieving and flotation processes. The material was in fact graded from fine sand through silt to clay, a…

The First Modern Visitor to Alahan

by MacKay, Pierre A.

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Leon de Laborde's visit to Alahan in 1826 provided the earliest western account of the monastery complex that is now so closely associated with the work of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara through the excavations conducted by Michael Gough. Laborde was not, however…