2025/01/17 by Oğuz Satır, Ali Çifçi · 1 voice
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Social Sciences · #Archaeological Research and Protection #History and Cultural Heritage
paper · doi:10.26650/anar.2024.31.1594553
openalex publication_date 2025/01/17 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11
This study investigates the archaeological excavations carried out by the German Orient-Comité at Zincirli Höyük between 1888 and 1902, using the Ottoman archives of the period and the documents in the Ottoman Imperial Museum. In addition to these archival documents, the wider work of the German archaeologists will be analyzed within this context. This study will focus on the relationships between Osman Hamdi Bey, the director of the Ottoman Imperial Museum at the time, Carl Humann, and Felix von Luschan. It will also reconstruct their excavation processes in Zincirli in the context of Ottoman bureaucracy. Most importantly, it will analyze how Hamdi Bey’s influence on that bureaucracy allowed the artifacts unearthed during the excavations to be taken to Germany despite the 1884 Asar-ı Atika (Antiquities) Regulation.