Historical place profile
Tırmıl Tepe Höyüğü
An unexcavated mound on the outskirts of modern Mersin in Turkey. Archaeological surface survey yielded pottery dating from the Calcolithic to the Medieval periods. Atop the mound lie the much-depleted ruins of a possibly medieval fortification. Tırmıl Tepe Höyüğü numbers among the proposed locations of ancient Kundu/Kyinda.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:649638685
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:649638685
- Place type
- settlement, tell
- Coordinates
- 36.825927, 34.662171
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An unexcavated mound on the outskirts of modern Mersin in Turkey. Archaeological surface survey yielded pottery dating from the Calcolithic to the Medieval periods. Atop the mound lie the much-depleted ruins of a possibly medieval fortification. Tırmıl Tepe Höyüğü numbers among the proposed locations of ancient Kundu/Kyinda.
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: Pleiades
Source and reuse
This profile derives from the Pleiades current GIS record, licensed CC BY 3.0. Pleiades place record The profile preserves the source name, point, type, description, precision and provenance without silently adding a boundary reconstruction.
Research path
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