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Recent Archaeological Research in Turkey

Kefkalesi The Adilcevaz, Kef Kalesi excavations, which have been in progress since 1964, continued in July and August 1972. Our work has been concentrated on the tombs this year. Tombs were plundered at Patnos and in the Sarisu region, which lies between Patnos and Adilcevaz, by local people in 1971. We noticed that the tombs had been very badly excavated and plundered over an even greater area this year. Many shopwindows are decorated with Urartian vases in Patnos. We were told that well preserved belts were sold to travelling dealers in antiques who came from Gaziantep, Mara§ and Adana. The work which has been done on the tombs by our staff, will be mentioned below in a separate section. Thirty rooms of the fortified palace have been cleared so far on the west peak of Kef Kalesi. We decided, therefore, to make a plan of this part of the palace, with the fortress walls at the south and north sides, and publish the results of the eight seasons' work. For this reason, the work of the last two seasons has been concentrated on clearing the fortress walls which bounded the north and south parts of the palace. The whole of the earth was completely cleared away on the north, and part of it at the south, of this section of the tepe. It was possible, therefore, to open it up conveniently and to draw the plan of the fortification wall that surrounded the north side of the 30 rooms. The outer surfaces of the fortification were built of big blocks which rested on natural rock. There were two or three rows of well preserved stones in some parts and seven rows of stones in the section which was opened up recently. Two more rooms were discovered at the north-east in addition to the rooms which had been brought to light in the excavation area during previous years. These rooms, built of mud-bricks on stone foundations, had been emptied. It was very unfortunate that we found so few small finds from this palace because its architecture is magnificent. If things were hidden in one corner, as at Karmir-Blur, and are discovered in the future, they will make a rich collection and we shall learn more about the Urartian culture. Next season we intend to work on the middle section of the palace and the inner fortification wall on the south and complete the plan of this area.