Trial-Trenches at Kojtepa, Samarkand Area (Sogdiana). Fifth Interim Report

Field Activity (Summer 2013) Kojtepa, is located at less than 50km. to South-West from Samarkand and very close to the outskirts of the Chandyr village. The fifth season of excavation amongst the others, had the following main objectives, all aiming at working and investigating: 1. Trench no 5; in order to find the continuation of the architectural network already evidenced, and a possible earlier architecture and material culture; 2. the area between the main tepe and the north-eastern corner of the encircling wall, named Trench no 9, with different successive extensions, Trench no 9.5, and Trench no 9.6; 3. a new trench, named no 11, contiguous to Trench no 5; 4. a new trench, named no 10 to east of Trench no 6 on the southern encircling wall of the tepe; 5. as much as dating material culture possible, in order to obtain a more detailed typological and possibly chronological stratigraphic differentiation; 6. a 3D reconstruction of the excavated area and of the Whole site.