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Recent Archaeological Research in Turkey

ALANYA CASTLE, 1986. The excavations at Alanya Castle began in 1985. Alanya was one of the most important Seljuk ports and, consequently, is an important site from the point of view of mediaeval Turkish-Islamic archaeology. In 1986 our activities in the castle included cleaning out the cisterns, a task which we had not completed in 1985, numbering the buildings within the Inner Fortress, and then working on the buildings numbered X and XV. Of these, XV is contiguous with another structure to the west of the south-east corner tower of the Inner Fortress. It is clear from the way they are connected to the curtain-wall that both of these buildings were constructed later. For the moment it is not possible to say anything definite about the function of building XV which has a peculiarity of height and depth that is not associated with any of the other buildings. The building was in a completely filled state, although we came across no trace of a roof. We excavated right down to the floor level and the finds that were obtained in the course of this work showed that the interior of building XV had been filled with tiles, glazed mosaic tesserae, plaster fragments and leftover building materials used in the palace. The excavation provided especially rich finds with regard to tiles. In addition, two Islamic coins were found. Some of the tiles are similar to those found in the Seljuk palace at Kubad-Abad, but another group is altogether different in style to the Kubad-Abad examples and appears to be unique to Alanya. During the excavation of building X, which must have been a tower, we uncovered some brick pedestals that had been added later to the interior of the building and a very small piece of the roof resting on the pedestals (in the southeast corner). The pedestals used to carry a vaulted roof that was possibly crossshaped. However, we could not decide what function the building served after it had been divided into two by these structures that were later additions to its interior. Among the finds for building X the coins are especially noteworthy. There are silver issues from the time of Alaeddin Keykubad, a gold coin from the Eyyubid period, Islamic copper coins, Hellenistic bronze coinage and, in addition, lead seals bearing the name of Keykubad. Some of the finds discovered during the excavations were conserved, given inventory numbers and handed over to Alanya Museum as exhibitable objects.