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(No) Fear and Loathing in Antioch
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For our third weekend of this year’s campaign, we planned an overnight trip to Antakya from the 10th to the 11th of September. Antakya presented itself as a compelling destination for the modern city is…
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A Temple „intra muros“ in Doliche?
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Last year, excavations started on the newly acquired field 414 in the eastern part of Doliche. The field is adjacent to the area, where we have excavated a Roman imperial bath house and remains of…
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The Doliche Excavation IV
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The Fieldwork strikes back! After a late arrival in Doliche this year due to a postponement of a couple of weeks, our yearly excavation in Gaziantep is a go! And with this late start everybody…
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A New Temple Uncovered!
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Results of our 2021 campaign Now that some time has passed after the end of our field campaign, and after we have returned to our offices in Germany, we had the time to begin analysing…
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Urban explorers of Dülük
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The ancient city of Doliche, where our excavation takes place, sits on one of the many hills, which define the landscape around the modern village of Dülük. While we are working throughout the week the…
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A day in the life of a find processing archaeologist
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The working day starts after a quick breakfast at 6:45 am. At first, we must put the finds from the previous day into the database and sort it into boxes in the depot or give…
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An Interview with our Workers
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During this year’s campaign, we conducted a short interview with the workers we work with every day. The people we interviewed are from different age groups, so we hoped to see different perspectives this way.…
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Preparing for the Next Venture
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At the moment, everybody working within the Forschungsstelle here in Münster is buzzing with excitement, for this year’s campaign in Turkey is right around the bend! Currently, we are all hard at work preparing for…
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Way Down Under the Ground
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by Ceren Ak I am a winter person. I hate the sun, the burning and the heat. I can literally feel my skin cooking whenever I am under the bright sun light. However, whenever I…
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The Processing of Finds in the Excavation House
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by Jonas Laxander What happens to the finds from the excavation on Keber Tepe? Who works in the find processing and what does a typical day at the excavation house look like? A key step…
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How Do We Protect the finds from the excavation?
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by Özgün Öykü Şanlı Greetings from Antep! The day at Doliche starts at 07.00 in the conservation-restoration laboratory. The first thing we do is to get our scalpels, bristle brushes and cotton bamboo sticks ready.…
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The entablature of the Roman Imperial Temple
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by Verena Mähser The building research team led by Theresa Pommer has been working for three years on the monumental Roman temple in the centre of ancient Doliche. The aim is to study the building…
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AMS 104 „Dülük Baba Tepesi I: Das frühe Heiligtum. Architektur, Baustratigraphie und Baugeschichte, archäozoologische Funde, Bauglieder, Keramik, Glas, Münzen und nichtkeramische Kleinfunde im Befundkontext. Dolichener und Kommagenische Forschungen XIV“
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Der vorliegende 104. Band der Reihe Asia Minor Studien ist der erste in einer Reihe vonPublikationen, in denen nicht die Einzelfunde, sondern der archäologische Befund in situ aufdem Dülük Baba Tepesi im Zentrum der Betrachtung…
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A new season begins. Doliche 2024
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The end of July marked the start of a new season of excavations in Doliche. Over the next two months, an international team of specialists and students will continue to explore the ancient city of…
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AMS 103 „The palace of Samosata. Objectscapes, ancient globalization and cultural transformation in Commagene (4th c. BCE – 1st c. CE)“
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Volume 103 offers an innovative analysis of cultural transformation in Hellenistic and early-Roman Samosata, the capital of Commagene, where a large and lavishly decorated palatial structure was excavated in the 1980s. On the basis of…
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Over sticks and stones
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A small video documentation of this year’s campaign While this year’s campaign, admittedly, fell a bit short regarding the posts here on our blog, we were hard-pressed due to time constraints and other problems. Luckily,…
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Oh, Temple of the hill, what is your wisdom?
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Building archaeology accompanying the 2022 campaign As you could already read about in another post, the focus while excavating this year lies on a roman imperial temple, found in the ancient city centre. While the…
