Gerçin Höyük. Formation and Development of an Aramaean State Sanctuary

杰尔辛·霍尤克 (Gerçin Höyuk)。

• 批准号: 302180660
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Dominik Bonatz
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Vorderasiatische Archäologie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2015-12-31 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/302180660?language=en
• 关键词: Ger; k.; Formation; Development; Aramaean

Gercin Höyük stands as a widely visible landmark in the valley of the Karasu in southeastern Turkey, not far from the famous ruins of Zincirli. During their exploration of the site in 1890, the German excavators of Zincirli encountered the remains of a colossal statue of the weather god bearing an Aramaic inscription as well as other statue fragments. This discovery paved the way for the recognition that the main sanctuary as well as the royal necropolis of the Aramaic-Iron Age royal house of Samal was to be found there. Despite the clearly outstanding sacral significance of Gercin Höyük, no further archaeological exploration has been conducted up to the present day. Only in the context of new excavations conducted by the Oriental Institute of Chicago at Zincirli, in the course of which massive and continuing illicit excavations at Gercin Höyük have been documented, has archaeological interest once again been directed toward the site.For this reason the Institute of Near Eastern Archaeology at the Free University of Berlin, supported by the Oriental Institute, is initiating an interdisciplinary project of systematic exploration at Gercin Höyük. The primary focus of the project is on the religious use and symbolic significance of this special place. They go hand-in-hand with archaeological evidence for a state sanctuary and its possible pre-Iron Age tradition, royal graves and other material forms of dynastic ancestor worship as well as a general settlement continuity or perhaps discontinuity that stands as an important regional historical reference to the origin and development of the Aramaen state of Samal. The project combines aspects of archaeological settlement research and building history with elements of the history of religion, the research on social space and physical anthropology.

Gercin Höyük 是土耳其东南部卡拉苏河谷的一个引人注目的地标，距离著名的 Zincirli 遗址不远。 1890 年，德国挖掘者在 Zincirli 遗址进行勘探时，发现了一座巨大的 Zincirli 雕像的遗迹。带有阿拉姆语铭文的天气神以及其他雕像碎片，为人们认识到主要圣所以及皇家墓地铺平了道路。尽管格尔辛·霍裕克 (Gercin Höyük) 具有明显的神圣意义，但迄今为止，仅在东方研究所进行的新发掘中，尚未进行进一步的考古勘探。芝加哥 Zincirli 记录了在 Gercin Höyük 进行的大规模且持续的非法发掘，考古兴趣再次转向该遗址。 为此，该研究所柏林自由大学近东考古学在东方研究所的支持下，正在 Gercin Höyük 启动一个跨学科的系统探索项目，该项目的主要重点是这个特殊地方的宗教用途和象征意义。 - 掌握国家庇护所及其可能的前铁器时代传统、皇家坟墓和王朝祖先崇拜的其他物质形式的考古证据，以及作为重要区域历史的总体定居点的连续性或可能的不连续性该项目参考了萨马尔阿拉曼国家的起源和发展，将考古定居点研究和建筑历史与宗教史、社会空间和体质人类学研究相结合。