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| dc.contributor.author | Aphrodisias Regional Survey | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-08-24T18:55:09Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-08-24T18:55:09Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2005-06-08 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Page reference: Christopher Ratté and Peter D. De Staebler (eds.). Aphrodisias V. The Aphrodisias Regional Survey (Verlag Philipp von Zabern: Darmstadt/Mainz, 2012), 48, 49, 50 - Book catalogue no.: Tumuli cat. 04. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/92934> | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | A051 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/92934 | |
| dc.description | Local Name: Kaklik Deresi, Yeşilyurt | en_US |
| dc.description | Local Information: The dirt road leading from modern Geyre to the villages of Yeşilyurt and Çamarası crosses the Morsynus river 3 km southwest of Aphrodisias. Half a kilometer further along, as the road begins to climb the still gentle slopes of the south side of the valley, it passes a tumulus tomb about 100 m south of the road. The tumulus was cleaned out by the Aphrodisias Museum in 1982. | en_US |
| dc.description | Latitude: 37.41.21.84 | en_US |
| dc.description | Longitude: 28.41.32.46 | en_US |
| dc.description | Elevation: 522m | en_US |
| dc.description | Axis: 271m | en_US |
| dc.description | Dimensions: Chamber: H: 2.09 m; W: 1.98 m; L: 2.54 m ** Antechamber: H: 2.09 m; W: 1.25 m; L: 1.6–1.7 m ** Dromos: H: uncertain; W: 1.05 m; L: uncertain | en_US |
| dc.description | Description: Chamber. The floor, walls, and ceiling of the chamber, antechamber, and dromos are all built out of limestone blocks, with the exception of one of the ceiling blocks of the chamber, which is of schist. As in other tombs, the walls of the chamber rest on the floor. The north, east, and south walls (Th: 0.4–0.5 m) are built up in three courses of large blocks (H of the bottom course as measured in the north wall: 0.79 m; H of the middle and top courses: 0.65 m). In the bottom course, the back and north walls are monoliths, as is the top course of the back wall. In the bottom course, the south wall is bonded into (passes behind) the back wall, and the back wall is bonded into the north wall; in the middle course, the back wall is bonded into both side walls; and in the top course, the two side walls are bonded into the back wall. All the blocks were apparently clamped together. In two places, the clamps survive; everywhere else they have been gouged out by tomb robbers. The best-preserved clamp, in the bottom course of the south wall, is an iron pi-clamp (L: 0.17 m; D: 0.04 m; Th: 0.015 m) set in copious amounts of lead. Couches composed of monolithic schist slabs (W: 0.67 m; Th: 0.10 m) were slotted into the back and south walls on top of the bottom course. As in the Yazır tumulus, the back couch was closed off by a front slab (Th: 0.07 m; H: uncertain) resting on top of the couch and slotted into both side walls; a shallow cutting in the south doorjamb (H: 0.42 m; W: 0.06 m) suggests that the couch on the south wall had a similar front panel. The top of this cutting has a socket (H: 0.9 m; D: 0.8 m), perhaps for a rail from which the front panel was suspended (if, as seems likely, it was made of wood). As in other tumulus tombs, the east wall of the chamber contains the doorway (H: 1.50 m; W: 0.73 m), situated off center so as to accommodate the south couch. It consists of two monolithic doorjambs (W: 0.71 and 0.28 m) supporting a lintel course (H: 0.47 m). Reveals around the inner face of the doorway (W on the sides: 0.13 m; W at the top: 0.06 m) show that it was closed by a fitted doorplug. The doorframe was built up against the side walls of the chamber, which is roofed by three monolithic ceiling slabs. ** Antechamber and Dromos. The antechamber was built up against the chamber. It is roughly centered on the doorway, and its masonry is similar to that of the chamber, although the blocks are less long and less finely trimmed and joined. The ceiling (Th: 0.4 m) is level with that of the chamber. The north wall of the antechamber ends in a straight joint at the east, at which point the wall of the dromos abuts on it. The wall of the dromos is parallel with that of the antechamber but shifted 0.13 m to the south. It is built of roughly coursed limestone rubble masonry. On the south, the wall of the dromos is continuous with that of the antechamber. The upper sections of the dromos walls were apparently rebuilt by the Aphrodisias Museum after the tomb was cleaned out in 1982, and a monolithic limestone ceiling slab was placed on top of them. The original height of the ceiling of the dromos is uncertain. | en_US |
| dc.description | Finds: The field to the NE of this tomb was full of tiles and pottery and one visible limestone block in the field, with others around the edge. There were also signs of emery, quarried in the hills to the south. This was at Long: 28.41.604/Lat: 37.41.476/elev: 510m. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Tumuli | en_US |
| dc.subject | 2: Protohistoric | en_US |
| dc.subject | 3: Hellenistic | en_US |
| dc.title | A051: Yeşilyurt Tumulus | en_US |
| dc.type | Other | en_US |
| dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Archaeology | en_US |
| dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | en_US |
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| dc.owningcollname | Aphrodisias Regional Survey |
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