Alişar Höyük

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Central Anatolia during the kārum period
Finds from Alişar in the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara

Alişar Höyük is a settlement mound in eastern central Anatolia ( Yozgat Province ). It is located between Sorgun and Sarıkaya in the Kanak Suyu valley , more precisely on a tributary of the upper Kanak Suyu, the Alişar Özü Çayı . The closest villages are Alişar in the south and Karaveli in the northwest. Alışar Höyük is located about 130 km north of Kayseri . The Tell occupies about 18 hectares and consists of a citadel and the lower town, which is bounded by a massive city wall. It is equated by Gorny with the Hittite Ankuwa .

Excavations

Alişar Höyük was excavated from 1927–1932 by a team from the University of Chicago under the direction of Hans Henning von der Osten (1899–1960). A team from the University of Chicago has been digging here again since the 1990s, this time under the direction of Ronald L. Gorny. Layers 11T and 10T date back to the time of the ancient Assyrian trading colonies . Traces of destruction in layer 11 may go back to the Hittite conquest.

The found objects are exhibited in the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara .

history

Gorny assumes that the city may have been originally Hittite and that it was incorporated into the emerging Hittite empire in the course of the Hittite advance from Kaneš to the north. Economic texts found in Alisar Höyük show that the city was part of the ancient Assyrian trade network.

literature

  • Ronald L. Gorny: Hittite Imperialism and Anti-Imperial resistance as viewed from Alişar Höyük. In: Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. 299/300, 1995, pp. 65-89.
  • S. Branting: The Alisar Regional Survey 1993-1994: A Preliminary Report. Anatolica 1996.
  • Ronald L. Gorny: Alişar Höyük in the Late Second Millennium BC In: O. Carruba, M. Giorgieri, C. Mora (eds.): Atti del Congresso Internazionale di Hittitologia. (= Studia Mediterranea. 9). 1995, pp. 159-171.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ronald L. Gorny: Hittite Imperialism and anti-Imperial resistance as viewed from Alişar Höyük. In: Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. 299/300, 1995, p. 67.
  2. ^ Ronald L. Gorny: Hittite imperialism and anti-imperial resistance as viewed from Alişar Höyük. In: Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. 299/300, 1995, p. 71.

Web links

Commons : Alişar Höyük  - collection of images, videos and audio files


Coordinates: 39 ° 36 ′ 22 "  N , 35 ° 15 ′ 42"  E