Sapallitepa (II — I millennium BC) is a settlement of ancient farmers of the Bronze Age in southern Uzbekistan , located in the Surkhandarya Valley, near the city of Sherabad .
The monument was studied by the expedition of the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR in 1969 and 1971 under the leadership of A. Askarov. The results of the expedition are set out in Askarov’s monograph Sapallitepa [1] .
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Description
The central part of the settlement had the shape of a square and was surrounded by three defensive walls. The only gate to this fortress-settlement was on the south side.
Excavations of the southwestern section of the fortified part of the settlement revealed a whole quarter, closed with monumental bypass walls from the south and west, and not wide streets from the north and east from the rest of the building massif. Askarov conditionally named it quarter I. Within quarter I, twelve premises were found that have both residential and household purposes. Seventeen rooms with residential and household purposes were discovered on the area of the opened part of quarter II. In the excavated part of quarter III, nine residential premises with two entrance rooms and two storage rooms were identified, a total of 8 rooms.
Finds
During the excavations, adobe buildings were discovered here, consisting of residential and utility rooms, the remains of workshops where ceramic products, tools, weapons and jewelry made of bronze were made, as well as wheat and barley grains stored in large jars.
Academician A. Askarov donated to the Museum of History of Uzbekistan archaeological finds from the excavations of the monuments of Sapallitep (II millennium BC) and Dzharkutan (XV-XII centuries BC) in Surkhandarya region. Among them are ceramic vases, a dastarkhan, the surface of which is covered with stamped medallions, as well as a small thrust for opening the door from black basalt.
Literature
A. Askarov “Sapallitepa” Publishing House of the FAS UzSSR, Tashkent 1973