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Location:

  • Türkiye, Yalınyazı
  • geo:40.148335,35.762222
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -2xxx / unknown

Class:

  • City
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=21219

Annotations

Considered to be Tabigga/Tabikka. A lot of cuneiform tablets of the archive of Hittite texts were found on the site. Majority of the tablets are correspondence between the site and the Hittite king, "Tudhaliya".

  1. Tasin Özgüc, Masat Höyük, 11, A Hittite Center Northeast of Bogazköy, ser. V. no. 38a, Türk Tarih Kurumu Yayinlari, 1982
  2. idem: Excavations at the Hittite Site, Maşat Höyük: Palace, Archives, Mycenaean Pottery. American Journal of Archaeology, 84(3), 1980, pp. 305-309
  3.  Sedat Alp,  Maşat Höyük'te Bulunan Çivi Yazılı Hitit Tabletleri, Hethitische Keilschrifttafeln aus Maşat-Höyük (Cuneiform Tablets Found in Maşat-Höyük, (series Türk Tarih Kurumu Yayinlari, VI. vol. 34), 1991
  4. J.G. Macqueen, The Hittites: And Their Contemporaries in Asia Minor,Thames and Hudson revised and enlarged ed. 1986, pp.95-96, diff.
  5. Jak Yakar, "Excavations at Masat Hoyuk and Investigations in Its Vicinity" Journal of the American Oriental Society 100/2, pp 175–177.
  6. Maciej Popko: Zippalanda and Ankuwa once more. Journal American Oriental Society 120/3, 2000, pp. 445–448.
  7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma%C5%9Fat_H%C3%B6y%C3%BCk

Nearby

Masat Höyük, Hittite Palace

Maşat Höyük. Hittite Citadel of Tapigga.

Uyuk (7 km)

Ancient settlement

Yıldıztepe-Beztepe (11 km)

Milestone


This object was added by Elżbieta on 2015-07-12. Last update by Ludwinski on 2020-10-12. Persistent URI: http://vici.org/vici/21219 . Download as RDF/XML, GeoJSON, KML.
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