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Document Details : Title: Gre Vırıke (Period I) Subtitle: Early Bronze Age Ritual Facilities on the Middle Euphrates River Author(s): TUBA ÖKSE, A. Journal: Anatolica Volume: 32 Date: 2006 Pages: 1-27 DOI: 10.2143/ANA.32.0.2012551 Abstract : On a mudbrick terrace by the Euphrates River plastered pools, a basalt channel, circular stone-built pits containing mammal bones and grains, and a basalt stairway leading to an underground spring were unearthed. Smaller pits in the clay plaster between the slabs covering the pits contained grains and ash. These structures do not seem to have been used in daily life. According to the ancient Near Eastern cuneiform sources water, ash, grains, and animal bones indicate ritual activities such as libation, sacrifices and incense-burning. The site might have been used as an open-air sanctuary in the first half of the 3rd Millennium BC, where rituals associated with Spring and harvest feasts were performed. |
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