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| dc.contributor.author | Aphrodisias Regional Survey | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-08-24T19:00:23Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-08-24T19:00:23Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2008-06-11 | 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), 287, 305, 306 - Book catalogue no.: Aqueducts cat. 7. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/93073> | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | F072 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/93073 | |
| dc.description | Local Name: Bingeç | en_US |
| dc.description | Local Information: The cistern is located near a modern dirt road that climbs the hills east of Tepecik on the Bingeç plateau, 2.8 km southeast of the modern village of Tepecik, 2.2 km north of the modern village of Bingeç, and 12.6 km southwest of Aphrodisias. | en_US |
| dc.description | Latitude: 37.38.22.61 | en_US |
| dc.description | Longitude: 28.36.31.31 | en_US |
| dc.description | Elevation: 881.73m | en_US |
| dc.description | Dimensions: H (total) (approximate): 5.5 m ** Diam (total): 8.6 m ** H (lower drum): 1–1.50 m ** Th (lower drum wall): 0.90 m ** H (upper drum): 0.80 m ** Th (upper drum wall): 0.55 m ** H (dome) (approximate): 3.5 m ** Internal Diam (dome) (approximate): 7 m | en_US |
| dc.description | Description: Preservation: The outer layer of cement covering the dome is missing and has not been reapplied as it has on other cisterns in the region. The cistern is filled with water of an unknown depth. White seepage deposits line the inside of the dome. Irrigation canals have been dug in the fields surrounding the cistern, perhaps encouraging its abandonment and the infill of sediment-laden water. ** Construction: The cistern is a composite structure formed by two stacked cylindrical drums on top of which rests a dome. The cistern is built of petit appareil masonry presumably around a mortared rubble core. The field stones, many of which are schist and quartz, are stacked and bonded with a white, lime-based mortar with stone inclusions smaller than 0.01 m. The stones vary greatly in size. Those forming the instep or ledge at the top of the lower substructure are 0.60 m by 0.30 m, but most are between 0.20 m wide by 0.50–0.10 m high, with greatly varying depth. ** Description: The cistern incorporates two stacked cylindrical drums, the lower of which is 1–1.50 m high, and the upper of which is 0.80 m high. The lower cylindrical drum of the cistern has an exterior circumference of about 27 m at ground level and an overall diameter of 8.6 m. The dome "springs" from the upper drum. The lower drum is 0.90 m thick, and the higher is 0.55 m thick. There is an instep 0.20–0.50 m wide between the two drums, but no instep between the upper drum and the dome. While the upper drum on which the dome rests is constructed of horizontally laid stones, the dome is built of stacked and angled stones, making it a true rather than corbelled dome. The dome is approximately 3.5 m high and has an internal diameter of approximately 7 m. The outer layer of cement covering the dome is missing and has not been reapplied as it has on other cisterns in the region. The dome is topped by a block that sticks up about 0.30 m from the top of the structure. The doorway into the cistern pierces the lower drum and faces east. Due to its incorporation into a curved wall, it is 1 m wide on the exterior and 0.80 m wide on the interior. The walls along vertical sides of the doorway are recessed, perhaps to hold a wooden door that is now missing. Into the left (south) wall of the doorway has been created a recessed niche 0.20 m by 0.20 m and 0.34 m deep, 0.56 m below the instep or ledge. The doorway is topped by a corbelled vault 0.30 m high, above which is a patch of gray cement 0.50 m high that must have originally held an Arabic inscription, as seen in the cistern at Tekeliler (B049). A series of windows pierces the bottom courses of the upper drum directly above the instep or ledge that separates it from the lower substructure. One of these windows is 0.30 m square and is located on the west side of the cistern, directly across from the doorway. The other windows are all 0.20 m square. Five pierce the southern side of the cistern, and two pierce the northeast side. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Waterworks | en_US |
| dc.subject | 7: Ottoman | en_US |
| dc.title | F072: Ottoman Cistern between Tepecik and Bingeç | 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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