Beyköy (İhsaniye)
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 Beyköy from Yumruktepe Hill |
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| Province (il) : | Afyonkarahisar | |||
| District ( ilçe ) : | İhsaniye | |||
| Coordinates : | 39 ° 3 ' N , 30 ° 28' E | |||
| Height : | 1109 m | |||
| Residents : | 904 (2018) | |||
| Telephone code : | (+90) | |||
| Postal code : | 03370 | |||
| License plate : | 03 | |||
| Structure and administration (as of 2015) | ||||
| Muhtar : | Mustafa Taşyürek | |||
Beyköy is a village in the İhsaniye district of the Afyonkarahisar province in central Turkey . The place is about five kilometers northeast of İhsaniye and 30 kilometers north of the provincial capital Afyonkarahisar . It is connected to the district center by a country road. The D-665 trunk road from Seyitgazi to Afyonkarahisar runs six kilometers east from north to south, and can also be reached by country roads.
In the south and southeast of the place there are several hills with the names Malatça, Beyköy, Ablak and Sipsin-Çayırbağı and Yumruktepe . On one of the first four hills, the Scottish archaeologist William Mitchell Ramsay discovered a stele with an inscription in Luwian hieroglyphics in 1884 , which is lost today. On the Yumruktepe, the German archaeologist Franz Steinherr discovered the weathered remains of a Hittite relief depicting a winged sun in 1965 . Numerous rock and chamber tombs were found on all the hills and in the wider area around Beyköy, dating from the Phrygian and Roman times and some of which were later used.
In the estate of the English prehistorian James Mellaart , the so-called Beyköy texts appeared, a long hieroglyphic Luwian inscription that is said to have been found in Beyköy and copied by Georges Perrot . Today, according to Eberhard Zangger , who presented the texts to the public in 2017, the blocks with the inscription are no longer accessible in the local mosque. The authenticity of the text is questioned.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nufusu.com Beyköy , accessed October 19, 2019
- ↑ Afyon Muhtarları
- ^ Hatice Gonnet: The Cemetery and Rock-cut Tombs at Beyköy in Phrygia In: Altan Cilingiroğlu (Ed.): Anadolu Demir Caglari 3 British Institute of Archeology at Ankara, 1994, ISBN 9781912090693 p. 75.