{"id":1196,"date":"2016-06-13T10:25:50","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T08:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tepetelegrams.wordpress.com\/?p=1196"},"modified":"2019-02-25T15:22:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T14:22:24","slug":"site-closed-for-visitors-until-end-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/2016\/06\/13\/site-closed-for-visitors-until-end-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Site closed to visitors until end of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update: Completion of both canopies\u00a0was slightly delayed and could not be achieved by the end of 2016 – the site remains closed to visitors as of yet; as soon as\u00a0an official new opening date is announced, it will be\u00a0made public\u00a0here as well.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Long in planning, construction of two permanent shelters above the excavated areas at G\u00f6bekli Tepe’s south-eastern and north-western depressions are finally about to start as the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism was announcing\u00a0[external link<\/a>]. These roofs will not only significantly contribute to the protection of the archaeological substance, but also\u00a0make accessibility for visitors easier, providing an increased experience of the early Neolithic architecture. For us archaeologists working on site it also opens up improved conditions to carefully excavate rather sensitive features independent of changing weather conditions.<\/p>\n

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Design of the membrane canopy in so-called Main Excavation Area (Visualisation: kleyer.koblitz.letzel.freivogel).<\/p><\/div>\n

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Underneath the membrane canopy above Enclosure D (Visualisation: kleyer.koblitz.letzel.freivogel).<\/p><\/div>\n

As just announced, the site would be closed for visitors between June 13 and December 31 of this year (i.e. 2016).\u00a0\u015eanl\u0131urfa’s\u00a0Haleplibah\u00e7e<\/span>\u00a0Museum\u00a0[external link]<\/a>\u00a0however, will still be open welcoming visitors during this period. It houses a larger number of finds from G\u00f6bekli Tepe and other Pre-Pottery Neolithic sites of the region and even offers the chance to enter a 1:1 replica of G\u00f6bekli Tepe’s Enclosure D, the so far largest and best preserved of the monumental enclosure to characteristic for the site.<\/p>\n

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An accessible 1:1 replica of Enclosure D can be visited in Urfa’s archaeological museum (Photo: J. Notroff).<\/p><\/div>\n

Shelters were designed by EiSat GmbH, Berlin [external link]<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0kleyer.kobltz.letzel.freivogel Architekten\u00a0[external link]<\/a>. The contracting authority is the Turkish Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology. The project is financed by the European Union.<\/p>\n

Further Reading<\/strong>
\n“Membran-Schutzdach f\u00fcr G\u00f6bekli Tepe, T\u00fcrkei” [external link]<\/a> – project description by EiSat GmbH for the first shelter.<\/p>\n

“Schutzdach 2 f\u00fcr die Ausgrabungen am G\u00f6bekli Tepe, T\u00fcrkei” [external link]<\/a> – project description by EiSat GmbH for the second shelter.<\/p>\n

L. Clare, O. Dietrich, J. Notroff, Die Arbeiten der Jahre 2014 (Herbst) und 2015 [external link]<\/a>, e-Forschungsberichte des Deutschen Arch\u00e4ologischen Instituts 3\/2015, 149-151.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update: Completion of both canopies\u00a0was slightly delayed and could not be achieved by the end of 2016 – the site remains closed to visitors as of yet; as soon as\u00a0an official new opening date is announced, it will be\u00a0made public\u00a0here as well. Long in planning, construction of two permanent shelters above the excavated areas at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[50283,19994,2646,840,75972],"class_list":["post-1196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-closed","tag-construction","tag-shelter","tag-site","tag-visiting","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7459,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions\/7459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}