The necropolis lies east of the Ilica Village and ca 60 km north-east to Gordion. The cemetery contains intirely of inhumations. There are mainly cits graves but some simple earth graves and cist graves were unearthed as well. Skeletons in pithos graves are in contracted position with head directed towards the south - east. The cemetery seems to be of ordinary citizens of the Old Hittite Period.
- Winfried Orthmann, Das Gräberfeld bei Ilica, Wiesbaden, F. Steiner 1967- https://www.academia.edu/1540741
- Kutlu Emre, Cemeteries of second millennium B.C. in central Anatolia in: Mikasa no Miya Takahitoeds., Essays on Ancient Anatolia and Syrian Studies in the Second and First Millennium B.C. Bulletin of the Middle Eastern Culture Center in Japan - BMECCJ 4,Wiesbaden, O. Harrassowitz 1991, p. 4.1
- James G. McQueen, The Hittites and Their Contemporaries in Asia Minor. Rev. ed. London: Thames & Hudson, 1986, pp. 134, 135
References
- ↑The location of the village Ilica seems to be uncorrect - The village is not NE of Ayas - it is NW.