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ZEYVE HÖYÜK (PORSUK) 2007Dominique BEYER 1On this South Cappadocian site, at the foot of the Taurus Mountain, onthe road to the Cilician doors, the archaeological work was devoted, like theprecedent seasons, to the eastern and western parts of the höyük, mostly onthe Iron and Late Bronze Age levels 2 .I. Chantier IV. Eastern Part of the Höyük (Fig.1).Two mains areas:1. On the South-East slope, where the focus was to complete our knowledgeof the remains of the Late Bronze Age-Hittite empire.Squares K41/42. The kazamat n°2 of the fortifications system:The first excavation days went on digging a very small area, on the slope,of the Hellenistic levels (Porsuk II). There was a good preserved earthen floorwith a kitchen pot in situ, but without good preserved walls. Here the remainsof Late and Middle Iron Age levels had been destroyed by many pits. Justbelow, we found the summit of a red destruction layer, with many brokenkerpiç belonging, normally, to the Late Bronze Age level (PorsukV, Hittiteimperial). For example, it is a big kerpiç of 60 by 40 by 13 cm. just below afloor (4085) with Iron activity traces. Kerpiç, gypsum, sandstones and woodenbeams fragments are remains of the superstructure of the west wall (04066) ofthe kazamat 2 (Fig. 1-2). On the top of the stones basement, some broken jarswere found (Fig. 3), and more strange, a big jar standing upright inside the1 Pr. Dr. Dominique BEYER, Institute of History and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East,University of Strasbourg/FRANCE. New address : MISHA (Maison Interuniversitaire desSciences de l’Homme-Alsace), 5 allée du Général Rouvillois, C 50008, F- 67083 Strasbourgcedex. Mail: dominique.beyer@misha.fr.2 Members of the staff 2007: Isabelle Chalier, Fabrice De Backer, Françoise Laroche-Traunecker,Julie Patrier, Aksel Tibet, archaeologists, under the direction of Dominique Beyer. The drawingsof the archaeological material were made by Alexis Beyer. Stéphane Lebreton, in charge of theRoman levels of the site, was unable to work on the field this year. Our temsilci was SuatSahin.See the annual report in Anatolia Antiqua XVI, 2008 and the precedent reports in the differentvolumes of the Kazı Sonuçları Toplantısı and Anatolia Antiqua.385