Excavations at Kınık Höyük 2016 / 2016 Yılı Kınık Höyük Kazıları

Report of excavation at Kınık Höyük (Turkey), season 2016 (specifically, paragraph “Operation B”, together with L. d’Alfonso, pp. 591-592)

A man of both Aššur and Kaneš: the case of the merchant Ḫabdu-mālik

In a letter dating to the reign of Zimri-Lim, the merchant Ḫabdu-mālik writes to the Mariote “Chief of the Merchants” Iddin-Numushda in order to enter a business agreement that he proposes they solidify through the marriage of their children. This letter has previously been discussed in relation to trading partnerships between Mari and Assur, both as evidence for trade in luxury items and for what it can tell us about the dynamics of long-distance trade in the late Old Assyrian period. This contribution, however, focuses on the particular way in which Ḫabdu-mālik describes himself—as a man of great renown in both Assur and Kanesh—to explore how the merchants of Assur understood the sociopolitical and geographical boundaries of their own community. By analyzing the Old Assyrian evidence through the lens of identity as performed across distance, we can understand early second-millennium Assur not as a city-state with satellite populations, or as a diaspora in which members of the society are cut off from one another, but as a cohesive community defined by people rather than place. As a member of a unified community across distance that existed in multiple places, the case of Ḫabdu-mālik demonstrates that Assyrian identity could be tied to both a civic membership and a membership in a profession that was defined by its ability to travel. These are not competing categories, but rather complementary parts of a unified way of life, illustrating the intricacies of identity in complex mercantile societies

Archaeological excavations at nigde-kinik HoÿUK. C 2019

© 2020 Universita degli Studi di Pavia, Facolta di Lettere. All rights reserved.This preliminary report presents the results of the two-month-long summer campaigns of 2018 and 2019 at the site of Nigde-Kinik Hoyiik (N-KH: Fig. 1). The excavations at N-KH are a collaborative research project of Pavia University and ISAW, New York University, directed by Lorenzo d'Alfonso and co-directed by Burak Yolafan (Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir). Dr. d'Al-fonso served as field director in 2018, and Nancy Highcock (Cambridge University), in 2019. Twenty-seven and twenty-nine participants formed the international team of 2018 and 2019 respectively K The archaeological commissar for the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism was Kemalettin Ata§ (Alanya Museum) in 2018 and Yasin Yildiz (Nev§ehir Museum) in 2019. For limits of space, the 2018-2019 results concerning the Iron Age (IA) occupation of the northern slope, lab restoration, and on-site stabilization and sheltering of the archaeological remains will be addressed in separate reports elsewhere

Archaeological Excavations at Niğde-Kınık Höyük: campaigns 2018-2019

The article offers a preliminary report on the excavations 2018-2019. In Operation A and E (northern portion of the mound) extensive excavations further exposed the Late Hellenistic monumental portion of the site, particularly the NW-Building (west sanctuary), and the stone-paved plaza. In Operation B a vast productive area featuring a large number of pyrotechnical installation dating to the mid-1st millennium BCE was revealed. Excavations in Operation C and D, on teh souther slope and in the western terrace, are bringing to light new relevant data on the Bronze Age and Iron Age at the site and in its lower town. Finally, votives in the form of birds of pray and bull statues were uncoverd in Operation E. In the article we report about the restoration of the Marble Eagle Statue, and its installation in the permanent collection of the Nigde Archaeological Museu

NIĞDE KINIK HÖYÜK: New evidence on Central Anatolia during the first millennium BCE

THE ARTICLE REPORTS ON THE EXCAVATIONS RESULTS AT NIGDE KINIK HOYUK, SOUTH CAPPADOCIA, FOR THE FIRST MILLENNIUM BCE. PARTICULAR EMPHASIS IS GIVEN TO THE CONTINUITY AND POST-COLLAPSE REORGANIZATION OF POITICAL COMPLEXITY CHARACTERIZING THE EARLY FIRST MILLENNIUM OCCUPATION BCE, AND THE DISCOVERY OF A 'TEMPLE CITY', WITH A MONUMENTAL AREA DATING TO THE LATE HELLENISTIC PERIO