The Tradition of Burning the Corpse in the Iron Age : A Case Study on Zeviya Tivilki in the Upper Tigris Region
| dc.contributor.author | Okse, A. Tuba | |
| dc.contributor.author | Eroglu, Serpil | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-09-18T21:00:28Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-09-18T21:00:28Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
| dc.department | Hatay Mustafa Kemal Ãœniversitesi | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The excavations carried out within the salvage project of the Ilisu Dam to be constructed on the Upper Tigris valley brought out three New Assyrian sites with cremation burials. In the provincial capital at Ziyarettepe cremation pits with mass burials cremated together with rich grave goods are recovered. Contrary to this urban centre, cremated individuals were buried in jars at two small rural sites; at Kavusan Hoyuk located on the fertile plain of the Tigris River and Zeviya Tivilki in the construction zone of the Ilisu Dam. At the northwestern border of the settlement at Zeviya Tivilki, 20 urns containing 18 individuals are recovered. All individuals were cremated in high temperatures and most of them are aged less than 20 years; these suffered iron deficiency anemia, and the adult arthridis at the vertebrae. Grave goods are composed mostly of unburned iron tools and weapons intended for daily use. The homogeneious grave goods and the similarity of the burials reflect an unstratified community. According to the Assyrian texts, the region was occupied by local people since the Middle Assyrian period. The hand made vessels are frequently interpreted as products of local people inhabiting a wide area across the Tigris valley and the Taurus Mountains. These people used also the standard wheel made vessels during the New Assyrian supremacy. The New Assyrian kings re-populated the fertile plain with deportees and established a series of farmsteads; however, the limited area of the construction zone of the dam with a relative shallow layer of arable soil on the bedrock is not suitable for performing a productive agricultural system. Thus, Zeviya Tivilki was inhabited by the local folk producing half of their vessels by hand. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.endpage | 185 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1378-5087 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0779-7842 | |
| dc.identifier.issue | 2 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.startpage | 159 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12483/12710 | |
| dc.identifier.volume | 134 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.wos | WOS:000209260500004 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.wosquality | N/A | en_US |
| dc.indekslendigikaynak | Web of Science | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Assyriological Cent Georges Dossin | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Akkadica | en_US |
| dc.relation.publicationcategory | Makale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı | en_US |
| dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess | en_US |
| dc.subject | upper Tigris region | en_US |
| dc.subject | New Assyrian | en_US |
| dc.subject | Iron Age | en_US |
| dc.subject | cremation | en_US |
| dc.subject | Zeviya Tivilki | en_US |
| dc.title | The Tradition of Burning the Corpse in the Iron Age : A Case Study on Zeviya Tivilki in the Upper Tigris Region | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
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