Historical place profile
Mersin-Yumuktepe
A tell known today as "Yumuktepe" is located at modern Mersin in Turkey. Excavations there, beginning in the 20th century, have provided evidence for continuous and/or successive human settlement beginning in the Neolithic period. Scholars believe that the names "Ingirâ" (found in Akkadian sources) and "Anchiale(ia)" (found in Greco-Roman sources) are to be associated with the site.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:648555
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:648555
- Place type
- settlement, tell
- Coordinates
- 36.801262, 34.604142
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
A tell known today as "Yumuktepe" is located at modern Mersin in Turkey. Excavations there, beginning in the 20th century, have provided evidence for continuous and/or successive human settlement beginning in the Neolithic period. Scholars believe that the names "Ingirâ" (found in Akkadian sources) and "Anchiale(ia)" (found in Greco-Roman sources) are to be associated with the site.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 66 F3 Anchiale(ia)
Source and reuse
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Research path
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