See:
- Olivier Henry, Ute Kelp, Tumulus as Sema: Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millennium BC,Walter de Gruyter 2016, p. 373 ff
- http://www.tayproject.org/TAYmaster.fm$Retrieve?YerlesmeNo=365&html=masterEngDetail.html&layout=web
See:
ACHILLEUM Besik-Yassitepe
Necropolis of Beşik Tepe in Troas.
The canal was not a navigable waterway. It is too narrow and lies too high above sea level. Scholars believe it was carved into bedrock to drain the source at Pinarbasi.