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The Hittite Stone and Sculpture Quarry at Karakız TownKarakiz Lion

Location:

  • Türkiye, Karakız
  • geo:39.818604,35.378464
  • Location ± 100-500 m.

Period or year:

  • -1400~ / -1200~

Class:

  • Workshop or industry
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=41548

Annotations

Hapisboğazı at Karakiz Kasabasi in the province of Yozgat in north-central Anatolia -the heartland of the empire, was a stone quarry dating to the Hittite Empire period in the Late Bronze Age.

See:

  1. Geoffrey Summers, Erol Ozen, The Hittite Stone and Sculpture Quarry at Karakiz Kasabasi and Hapis Bokazi in the District of Sorgun, Yozgat, Central Anatolia, American Journal of Archaeology 116(3), 2012, pp. 507-519


Nearby

Karakiz (1 km)

Two Hittite lion statues in Yozgat Province, Turkey, dating from between 1400 and 1200 BCE. They were discovered in 2001.

Karakız Kasabası (2 km)

Hittite Quary and Statue Workshop. Karakız Belediyesi Kazankaya Mevkii - Sorgun/YOZGAT

Sibora (15 km)

OmnesViae import TPPlace2285


This object was added by Elżbieta on 2017-05-02. Last update by Elżbieta on 2023-01-06. Persistent URI: http://vici.org/vici/41548 . Download as RDF/XML, GeoJSON, KML.
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