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Location:

  • Türkiye, Boğazkale
  • geo:40.01992,34.615417
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -13xx~ / unknown

Class:

  • Temple or sanctuary
  • visible

Identifiers:

Annotations

The Great Temple (Temple I) of Hattusa  located in the Lower City was erected in the XIII century BC. The temple had two cellas, one for the Storm-God and one for the Sun-Goddess.

See:

  1. James G. Macqueen, The Hittites: And Their Contemporaries in Asia Minor, rev. eds., London, Thames and Hudson 1986, pp.116-122
  2. Jürgen Seeher, Chronology in Hattuta: New Approaches to an Old Problem, in: Mielke, Schoop, Seeher (ed.), Structuring and Dating in Hittite Archaeology. BYZAS 4 (2006), pp. 197-213
  3. Hermann Genz, Dirk Paul Mielke eds., Insights into Hittite History and Archaeology. Colloquia Antiqua 2, 2011, pp. 1-29
  4. A. Tuba Ökse, “Open-air Sanctuaries of the Hittites.” In: Insights into Hittite History and Archae-ology, edited by Hermann Genz and Dirk Paul Mielke, Colloquia Antiqua 2. Leuven: Peeters, 2011, pp. 219–40
  5. Gary Beckman, Constructing Sacred Space in Hittite Anatolia, in: Heaven on Earth: Temples, Ritual, and Cosmic Symbolism in the Ancient World eds.Deena Ragavan, OIS 9, Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 2013, pp. 153-173
  6. Caroline Zimmer-Vorhaus, Hittite Temples: Palaces of the Gods, in: H. Genz, D. P. Mielke eds., Insights into Hittite History and Archaeology. Colloquia Antiqua 2, 2011, pp. 195-218

Relevant museums

Istanbul Archaeology Museums

Istanbul Archaeology Museums


Nearby

Kadesh Treaty

Museum of the Ancient Orient - Eski Şark Eserli Müzesi, Istanbul Archaeological Museums.

Library, Hattusa

Hittite ancient library. Archive.

Hattusa (Hattuşaş) - Egyptian Stone

Egiptian perfectly polished stone in the side chamber of the Great Temple complex. Green Stone.


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