Harput İç Kale Mahalle Kazısı: Osmanlı'ya Arkeolojik Bir Yaklaşım (ilk sonuçlar)

Makale Türkçe

Künye:

Yazarlar:

Veli SEVİN

Necla SEVIN ARSLAN

Haydar KALSEN

Ekle

Emeği Geçenler:

Ekle

Yayın Yılı:

2008

Yayınlandığı Eser:

Belleten

Cilt:

LXXII

Sayı:

264

Sayfa Aralığı:

629-641

İçerik Dosyası:

Web adresi:

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Operatör:

Çağrı Uğur

Güncelleyen:

kaynakca.info

Özet:

Tarihi Harput kenti Urartu Krallığı döneminden 20. yüzyılın başlarına kadar kesintisiz olarak iskan edilmiştir. 1516’da Osmanlı sultanı Yavuz Sultan Selim tarafından fethedilmiş ve Osmanlı dönemindeki sosyal, kültürel ve ekonomik yapısıyla Anadolu’nun önemli kentlerinden biri haline gelmiştir. Modern Elazığ kenti yakınında kayalık bir tepe üzerine kurulmuş Harput Kalesi’nde Elazığ Müze’si tarafından 2005 yılından bu yana arkeolojik bir kurtarma projesi başlatılmıştır. Kazı, kale içinde Osmanlı egemenliği döneminin başlangıcından itibaren ortaya çıkmış küçük mahalleyi, az sayıda evleri, camileri, dükkanları, atölyeleri ve daracık sokaklarıyla ortaya çıkarmayı amaç edinmiştir. Urartu kaya temelleri üzerine kurulmuş Kale Camii 2006 ve 2007 yıllarında ortaya çıkarılmıştır. Stratigrafik veriler, yapısal özellikler ve bazı küçük buluntular bu yapının Artuklular tarafından inşa edilmiş Anadolu’daki en eski camilerden biri olduğunu düşündürüyor. Ayrıca şimdiye kadar iki ev ve bir kalaycı dükkanı temizlendi. Ancak, Harput Kalesi’ndeki mahallede Osmanlı arkeolojisi kapsamında yürütülen yeni kazı henüz başlangıç aşamasından öteye gidebilmiş de değildir.

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The ancient city of Harput was occupied from the Kingdom of Urartu to the beginning of twentieth century AD without a break. It was conquered by Yavuz Sultan Selim, the Ottoman king, at 1516, and was one of the important sites of Anatolia with its social, cultural and economical structure during the Ottoman era. At the citadel of Harput built on a rocky hill near the modern city of Elazığ an archaeological salvage project was initiated by the Museum of Elazığ from 2005 onwards. The aim of the excavation was to unearth the small district with its few houses, mosques, shops, ateliers and narrow streets that had been settled from the beginning of the Ottoman rule within the citadel. The mosque, Kale Camii, constructed on the Urartian stone foundations was excavated between 2006 and 2007. Stratigraphical data, structural characteristics and some small finds suggest that this building was one of the oldest mosques in Anatolia constructed by the Artuqids. Additionally two houses and a tin-maker’s shop were excavated so far. The new excavation, however, carried on the district of the citadel at Harput directing in the approach of Ottoman archaeology is at its preliminary stage yet.

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The ancient city of Harput was occupied from the Kingdom of Urartu to the beginning of twentieth century AD without a break. It was conquered by Yavuz Sultan Selim, the Ottoman king, at 1516, and was one of the important sites of Anatolia with its social, cultural and economical structure during the Ottoman era. At the citadel of Harput built on a rocky hill near the modern city of Elazığ an archaeological salvage project was initiated by the Museum of Elazığ from 2005 onwards. The aim of the excavation was to unearth the small district with its few houses, mosques, shops, ateliers and narrow streets that had been settled from the beginning of the Ottoman rule within the citadel. The mosque, Kale Camii, constructed on the Urartian stone foundations was excavated between 2006 and 2007. Stratigraphical data, structural characteristics and some small finds suggest that this building was one of the oldest mosques in Anatolia constructed by the Artuqids. Additionally two houses and a tin-maker’s shop were excavated so far. The new excavation, however, carried on the district of the citadel at Harput directing in the approach of Ottoman archaeology is at its preliminary stage yet.