Osmankaya, Hittite Rock Necropolis [ Hattusa]

Osmankaya necropolis is a cemetery of the Hittite capital Hattusa [east to Buyukkale]. This cemetery was used in Old Hittite Period, in the XVII century or even earlier¹

A. Unal described that burials as interments of the Old Assyrian Colony period².

All the burials were deposited in natural rock niches.

The finds were published in the "Boğazköy-Hattuša" series in 1958.³

1. R. A. Crossland, Immigrants from the North, CAH vol. I, Revised Ed., Cambridge University Press 1967
2. Kurt Bittel, Arif Müfid Mansel and U. Bahadır Alkım, Summary of Archaeological Work in Turkey, 1952 , in: Anatolian Studies Vol. 3 (1953), pp. 9, 10
3. Ahmet Ünal, "On the Writing of Hittite History" JAOS 109, 1989, pp. 283-287 - https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6891/1/uenal_ahmet_6891.pdf
4. Kazimierz Lewartowski, Cremation and the end of Mycenaean culture , Światowit : rocznik poświęcony archeologii przeddziejowej i badaniom pierwotnej kultury polskiej i słowiańskiej, 1998, 41, A, pp. 135-145
5. Boğazköy-Hattuša 2: Die hethitischen Grabfunde von Osmankayası. Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft, vol. 71. Gebr. Mann 1958.

References

1. ↑R. A. Crossland, Immigrants from the North, CAH vol. I, Revised Ed., Cambridge University Press 1967, pp. 22-23
2. ↑Ahmet Ünal, "On the Writing of Hittite History" JAOS 109, 1989, p. 287 - https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6891/1/uenal_ahmet_6891.pdf
3. ↑Boğazköy-Hattuša 2: Die hethitischen Grabfunde von Osmankayası. Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft, vol. 71. Gebr. Mann 1958.