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Yalburt Water Monument. Hittite Inscription. Tudhaliya IVYalburt Hittite Pool

Location:

  • Türkiye, Yalbur Yaylası
  • geo:38.454632,31.978907
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -12xx / unknown

Class:

  • Aqueduct
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=28698

Annotations

Tudhaliya IV (1237-1209 BC.), one of the last kings of the Hittite Empire, built a sacred pool on the southern slopes of Koca Tepe1.

See:

  1. Ömür Harmanşah, Peri Johnson, Yalburt Yaylası Archaeological Landscape Project 2015 Campaign in: ANMED 2016-14: 296-300 - https://www.academia.edu/27756541
  2. John David Hawkins,Hittite Monuments and Their Sanctity, in: Sacred Landscapes of Hittites and Luwians: Proceedings of the International Conference in Honour of Franca Pecchioli Daddi Florence, February 6th-8th 2014

References

  1. Ömür Harmanşah, Peri Johnson, Yalburt Yaylası Archaeological Landscape Project 2015 Campaign in: ANMED 2016-14: 296-300 - https://www.academia.edu/27756541


Nearby

Yalburt Hittite Pool - Monument of Tudhaliya IV

Hieroglyphic Luwian inscription. Yalburt Water Monument.

Çömlekçi Mahallesi Ören (12 km)

Hittite settlement

Aralla (16 km)

Aralla


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