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Surroundings:

Marble statue of an eagleKınık HöyükLate Hittite Teshub Stele. Bor

Location:

  • Türkiye, Bayat
  • geo:37.932011,34.363171
  • Location ± 5-25 m.

Period or year:

  • -1xx~ / unknown

Class:

  • Temple or sanctuary
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=58042

Annotations

The recently discovered temple at Kinik Hoyuk in Souuthern Cappadotcia ( modern province of Niğde) was occupied during the Late Achaemenid and Hellenistic periods. The Late Hellenistic fragments of the three figurines were found in the temple. One was recognized as a Kybele and the second one as an Aphrodite.

Sources:

  1. Lorenzo Castellano at all., Niğde Kınık Höyük: New Evidence on Central Anatolia during the First Millennium BCE,Near Eastern Archaeology 83(1):16-29
  2. https://www.aa.com.tr/en/turkey/2-100-year-old-hellenistic-temple-unearthed-in-turkey/1210442

Nearby

Kinik Hoyuk, Citadel

Kınık Höyük IA citadel.

Kınık Höyük [Bayat]

Hittite and Neo-Hittite settlement in South Cappadocia at the foot of Melendiz Mointains.

Kınık Höyük, Temple of Dionysus

Hellenistic temple of Dionysus?


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