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Boghaz-Keui (now Bo azkale), Turkey, is the site of the ancient Hittite city of Hattusa. In the early 1900s German archaeological expeditions discovered the royal archives of clay cuneiform tablets, among other interesting artifacts. These tablets, describing in detail the legal and cultural practices of this people, provided evidentiary support for the reliability of similar practices related in the Old Testament (which had come under attack as being too complex for that time period). This is a facsimile reprint of an article summarizing the archaeological exploration of the city during the 1907 summer season.
"From around 1650/1600 to 1200 BC Hattusha was the capital city of the Hittites, who ruled over wide reaches of Anatolia. This guide includes a practical itinerary that leads you past all the most significant features of the ancient capital, including the rock-cut sanctuary of Yazilikaya nearby."--back cover.
24 October 2001.
The rock sanctuary of Yazilikaya is one of the most important ritual sites of the Late Bronze Age in Turkey. Its walls are decorated with unique rock-cut reliefs: over ninety male and female deities, animals and mythical beings - more than half of all known Hittite reliefs. The sanctuary once lay on the outskirts of Hattusa, capital of the Hittite Empire, in central Anatolia. The German Archaeological Institute has been excavating here since 1931 and the rock sanctuary of Yazilikaya has been thoroughly investigated in the process. While scientific literature is plentiful, what is lacking is a "complete Yazilikaya": a comprehensively illustrated publication in English intended both for expert...
From the contents:00Massimo FORLANINI / The Ancient Land of?Northern? Kumma?a and Arip?a?Inside the Sea? 0Dirk Paul MIELKE / Hittite Settlement Policy 0Andreas SCHACHNER / The Historical Development of the Urban Geography of Hattu?a, the Hittite Capital City, and Beyond0Ozlem SIR GAVAZ / The Location of the City of Matilla: A New Look 0Kimiyoshi MATSUMURA / The Ancitent City Connecting the East and West: Büklükale 0Sevket DONMEZ / The Contribution of New Research to Hittite Historical Geography of Amasya Province 0Aslihan YURTSEVER BEYAZIT / Amasya Province During the Hittite Period in the Light of New Evidence 0Cigdem MANER / Searching for?upi?na Hittite Remains in Ere?li Kara Höyük and Tont Kalesi 0Stefano de MARTINO / The Region of Ankara at the Hittite Age: The?Province? of Ka/i??iya in a Diachronic Perspective.
This is the first volume in a new series, Chicago Hittite Dictionary Supplements, designed to augment and supplement the work of the Chicago Hittite Dictionary project. Future volumes will continue to bring tablets written in the Hittite language to light. The volume presented here (ABoT II) is the continuation of the cuneiform edition Ankara Arkeoloji Muezesinde Bulunan Bogazkoy Tabletleri (ABoT) published by Kemal Balkan in 1948. The Hittite tablets, which were acquired by the Ankara Anadolu Medeniyetleri Muezesi by purchase and donations, or collected as surface finds, bear the siglum "AnAr". The best-preserved and attractive pieces of these tablets have been made accessible to the schola...