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Report on the Kültepe excavation

Title	Report on the Kültepe excavation
Author	Landsberger, B
Publication Place	- Ankara: Turkish Historical Society Printing House
Subject	Belleten (Turkish Historical Society), 1948-10, Vol.12 (48), p.855-860
Type	Periodical
Language	eng,tur
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Library:	The University of Leicester Library
Library Asset ID	ISSN: 0041-4255, DOI: 10.37879/ttkbelleten.1352127
Record ID	cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_bd6bd210f8f948a4bbc651ad0a833500
Library Location	DOES
Notes	I attended the excavations in Kültepe for two days. I saw the excavation method on site. I talked to the excavator about the program and read one hundred and twenty of the tablets obtained during this excavation and made temporary transcriptions. I feel pleasure and satisfaction that Karum Kanish could and will be saved; Because the excavations, which were hastily carried out by the villagers on the one hand and Hrozny on the other, were not very different from a theft excavation, and also because the results had not been published to this day and probably would not be published, I had always feared that this magnificent old center had been spoiled and lost. But now, leaving aside the minor destructions, the fact that we have learned that Karum can be restored as ashes in a completely scientific manner is the first and most important result of this successful excavation.

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Report on the Kültepe excavation

Author Landsberger, B

Publication Place - Ankara: Turkish Historical Society Printing House

Subject Belleten (Turkish Historical Society), 1948-10, Vol.12 (48), p.855-860

Type Periodical

Language eng,tur

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Library The University of Leicester Library

Library Asset ID ISSN: 0041-4255, DOI: 10.37879/ttkbelleten.1352127

Record ID cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_bd6bd210f8f948a4bbc651ad0a833500

Library Location DOES

Notes I attended the excavations in Kültepe for two days. I saw the excavation method on site. I talked to the excavator about the program and read one hundred and twenty of the tablets obtained during this excavation and made temporary transcriptions. I feel pleasure and satisfaction that Karum Kanish could and will be saved; Because the excavations, which were hastily carried out by the villagers on the one hand and Hrozny on the other, were not very different from a theft excavation, and also because the results had not been published to this day and probably would not be published, I had always feared that this magnificent old center had been spoiled and lost. But now, leaving aside the minor destructions, the fact that we have learned that Karum can be restored as ashes in a completely scientific manner is the first and most important result of this successful excavation.