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The Late Hittite Sikizlar basalt quarry is located ca 40 km to the SW of Carchemish.
See:
- Özgür Harmansah, Cities and the Shaping of Memory in the Ancient Near East, Cambridge University Press 2013, p. 181,
- VPeter Roger Stuart Moorey, Ancient Mesopotamian Materials and Industries: The Archaeological Evidence, Eisenbrauns, 1999, p. 32