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Hapisboğazı Hittite workshop

Location:

  • Türkiye, Karakız
  • geo:39.811199,35.356194
  • Location ± 5-25 m.

Class:

  • Workshop or industry
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=20484

Annotations

The field scattered with unfinished statues and stone blocks prepeared for sculpture. The quary were used during Hittite Empire period in the Late Bronze Age.

Sources:

  1. http://www.hittitemonuments.com/karakiz/
  2. İ.Taş, Ö. Yılmaz, Ö. S. Gavaz. "Identification of an Unfinished Statue Found in a Quarry at Karakiz, Yozgat, Turkey," in
          L. Feliu, et al (eds.) Time and History in the Ancient Near East, RAI 56, 2013: 833-38
  3. http://www.academia.edu/6354910/The_Hittite_Stone_and_Sculpture_Quarry_at_Karak%C4%B1z_Kasabas%C4%B1_and_Hapis_Bo%C4%9Faz%C4%B1_in_the_District_of_Sorgun_Yozgat_Central_Anatolia_GEOFFREY_D._SUMMERS_AND_EROL_%C3%96ZEN

 


Nearby

Karakiz

Two Hittite lion statues in Yozgat Province, Turkey, dating from between 1400 and 1200 BCE. They were discovered in 2001.

Hapisboğazı (2 km)

Hapis Boğazı - Hittite workshop.

Aegonne (13 km)

Road station


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