Kültepe
Sign in to saveKültepe (Turkish: ), also known under its ancient name Kaneš (Kanesh, sometimes also Kaniš/Kanish) or Neša (Nesha), is an archaeological site in Kayseri Province, Turkey. It was already a major settlement at the beginning of the 3rd millennium BC (Early Bronze Age), but it is world-renowned for its significance at the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC (Middle Bronze Age). The archaeological site consists of a large mound (also known as höyük, tepe or tell), and a lower city, where a kārum (the Assyrian word for trading district) was established in the beginning of the 2nd Millennium BC. So fa
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Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Kültepe
- Ancient site.image
- KültepeOberstadtPalast.jpg
- Ancient site.caption
- Hittite palace at Kültepe
- Ancient site.map_type
- Turkey
- Ancient site.location
- Kayseri Province, Turkey
- Ancient site.region
- Anatolia
- Ancient site.type
- Settlement
- Ancient site.cultures
- Hittite Assyrian
- Ancient site.excavations
- 1906, 1925, 1948-2013
- Ancient site.archaeologists
- Hugo Grothe, Bedřich Hrozný, Tahsin Özgüç, Fikri Kulakoğlu
- Ancient site.condition
- In ruins
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- archaeological site
- Country
- Turkey
- Located in
- Melikgazi district
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Official website
- www.kultepe.org.tr
- Image
- KültepeOberstadtPalast.jpg
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Article
11 sectionsContents
- History
- Archaeology
- ''Kārum'' Kaneš
- Dating of Waršama Sarayi
- Women at Kaneš
- Zizizi
- Taram-Kubi
- See also
- References
- Sources
- External links
Kültepe (Turkish: ), also known under its ancient name Kaneš (Kanesh, sometimes also Kaniš/Kanish) or Neša (Nesha), is an archaeological site in Kayseri Province, Turkey. It was already a major settlement at the beginning of the 3rd millennium BC (Early Bronze Age), but it is world-renowned for its significance at the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC (Middle Bronze Age). The archaeological site consists of a large mound (also known as höyük, tepe or tell), and a lower city, where a kārum (the Assyrian word for trading district) was established in the beginning of the 2nd Millennium BC. So far, 23,500 cuneiform tablets recovered from private houses constitute the largest collection of private texts in the ancient Near East. In 2014, the archaeological site was inscribed in the Tentative list of World Heritage Sites in Turkey.
thumb|Animal shaped rhyton from Kanesh (19th century BC) Vorderasiatisches Museum Berlin