Last year, excavations started on the newly acquired field 414 in the eastern part of Doliche. The field is adjacent to the area, where we have excavated a Roman imperial bath house and remains of an archive building. It is here, on the eastern slope of the Keber Tepe, where we expect the ancient cityContinue reading “A Temple “intra muros” in Doliche?”
Category Archives: Ancient Doliche
Excavating the Past
In the last couple of weeks, our own Prof. Winter was approached by the podcast team of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität to talk a bit about his life and the development of the Doliche Urban Excavation Projects. The result is an episode about life as an archaeologist, the history of the Forschungsstelle and the development ofContinue reading “Excavating the Past”
A New Temple Uncovered!
Results of our 2021 campaign Now that some time has passed after the end of our field campaign, and after we have returned to our offices in Germany, we had the time to begin analysing and interpreting our results and establishing the context of our findings. We had been already suspecting to have discovered somethingContinue reading “A New Temple Uncovered!”
A very ‘small’ update
During this year’s campaign, we finally finished the work on a grave chamber in Doliche which we had the opportunity to excavate in 2017. The chamber was robbed already in late antiquity and most of the grave goods were taken away. But since that time, no one entered this particular grave. Many little objects whichContinue reading “A very ‘small’ update”
Jupiter Dolichenus and the Dülük Baba Tepesi Part 2/2
Images of a Storm God In our second blog entry about Jupiter Dolichenus we will focus on the depictions of himself and other deities connected to the storm god. We hope to give you a nice picture of the deity that was, for a very long time, so important to the inhabitants of ancient DolicheContinue reading “Jupiter Dolichenus and the Dülük Baba Tepesi Part 2/2”
Jupiter Dolichenus and the Dülük Baba Tepesi Part 1/2
The Architecture on the Mountain As we are still quite some months away from any excavation work in Doliche, we decided to give you some insights into the results of our previous excavation project on the nearby mountain of Dülük Baba Tepesi. The Project ran from 2001 to 2015 and produced a large amount ofContinue reading “Jupiter Dolichenus and the Dülük Baba Tepesi Part 1/2”
Finishing up the work in Doliche
The last time we spoke about this year’s excavation results was during our half-time show a couple of weeks back. Now that the actual excavation has finished on Saturday, it’s time to show you this year’s results in all its glory! Of course this year we only worked on the terrace basilica. Last time weContinue reading “Finishing up the work in Doliche”
How Marbelous!
The Wall Decoration of the Ancient Terrace Basilica In Doliche, a soft limestone was the used for almost every building from the Hellenistic period to the Middle Ages. It was abundantly available and could be carved with great ease. Many quarries can be identified at close distance to the city and even within the urbanContinue reading “How Marbelous!”
DOLİCHE HALI YIKAMA! (or, how we clean mosaics)
Merhaba! Bu yazımızda; bizi arazide en heyecanlandıran şeylerden birinden bahsedeceğiz: Mozaik taban! Bu yılki çalışmamızda; küçük renkli taş parçalarının bir araya gelerek göz alıcı bir hale büründüğü bir zemin bulduk. Bu sürecin daha iyi anlaşılması için sırayla anlatacağız. İşçilerin kazmayla kazdığı toprakta çıkan buluntular arasından sık sık mozaik parçaları çıktığında bu bizim için bir ipucuContinue reading “DOLİCHE HALI YIKAMA! (or, how we clean mosaics)”
The Doliche Halftime Show
Now that roughly half of our 2020 excavation campaign is over, we thought we’d show you the state of our progress and the trenches we are working on in 2020. This year we are working solely on the Keber Tepe. We are focusing all our efforts completely onto the late antique basilica church which wasContinue reading “The Doliche Halftime Show”
The Doliche Diaries 