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Oymaagac Höyük

Location:

  • Türkiye, Oymaağaç
  • geo:41.20792,35.43
  • Location ± 5-25 m.

Period or year:

  • -17xx / -11xx

Class:

  • Temple or sanctuary
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=44725

Annotations

Hittite town of  Nerikka as an important religious centre. The temple, a monumental building ca. 47 x 43.5 m, excavated between 2007 and 2015 stood on the highest point of the site. The temple was build two times. The Old Temple (c. 17th/16th–15th/14th centuries BC) was destroyed and abandoned for a century and half.  The New Temple (c. 1260/1230–1180 BC) was erected over the ruins of the original sanctuary. Dedication of the temple was prooved by the red-slipped bull figures - bull-shaped cultic vessels interpreted generally as representations of the Storm God himself or of his  bull companions Seri and Hurri.

See:

  1. Pavol Hnila, The Northernmost Hittite Monumental Building: The Temple of the Storm God of Nerik at Oymaağaç Höyük, Poster presented on ICAANE 2016 conference, Vienna 2016 - Oymaağaç Project, http://www.nerik.de
  2. Mehmet Ali Yılmaz, Rainer Czihon: Vezirköprü/Oymaağaç Höyük-Nerik (?) Projesi, in: Anadolu'nun Zirvesinde Türk Arkeolojisinin 40 Yılı, Ankara 2014, pp.339-346
  3. Archäologische Forschungen am Oymaağaç Höyük/Nerik 2011–2015

Nearby

Nerik - Oymaağaç Höyük

Necropolis of Nerik

Nerik - Nerikka

Hittite city. Oymaağaç-Nerik.

Oymaagaç Necropolis (2 km)

EBA necropolis.


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