Coordinates: 39°36′22″N 35°15′41″E / 39.60611°N 35.26139°E / 39.60611; 35.26139 Alishar Hüyük (in modern Yozgat Province, Turkey) was an ancient Near Eastern city. It is near the modern village of Alisar.

Alishar Hüyük
Alishar Hüyük Location in Turkey
Coordinates: 39°36′22″N 35°15′41″E / 39.60611°N 35.26139°E / 39.60611; 35.26139

History[link]

Alishar Hüyük was occupied beginning in the Chalcolithic Period, through the Bronze Age and the Hittite Empire, and into Phyrgian times. A number of Hittite era cuneiform tablets in Old Assyrian of the Cappadocia type were found there. ^[1] Mention in those tablets of the town Amkuwa has caused speculation that the site is the Ankuwa mentioned in other Hittite texts.

Archaeology[link]

The site was excavated between 1927 and 1932 by a team from the Oriental Institute of Chicago. The work was led by Erich Schmidt. ^{[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]} Excavation resumed in 1992, led by Ronald Gorny as part of the Alisar Regional Project, though most of the work has been at nearby Çadır Höyük. ^{[9] [10]}

Notes[link]

See also[link]

Ancient Near East portal

• Cities of the ancient Near East

References[link]

• Ronald L. Gorny, The Biconvex Seals of Alishar Höyük, Anatolian Studies, vol. 43, pp. 163–191, 1993
• Erich Schmidt, Anatolia Through the Ages: Discoveries at the Alishar Mound, 1927–1929, Oriental Institute Communication 11, University of Chicago Press, 1931
• Ronald L. Gorny, Hittite Imperialism and Anti-Imperial Resistance As Viewed from Alișar Höyük, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, no. 299/300, The Archaeology of Empire in Ancient Anatolia, pp. 65–89, 1995

External links[link]

• Dig site for nearby Çadır Höyük
• Anatolian Iron Age Ceramics Project

Alişar is a village in the Yozgat Province, Turkey. Near the village is the archaeological site of Alişar Höyük.

Alişar Höyük[link]

The site was settled from the Chalcolithic period in the fourth millennium BC until the Phrygian period in the first millennium BC. During the Early and Middle Bronze Age in the third millennium BC Alişar developed into a walled town. Eventually it became the most significant city in the region. Like Kanesh (Kültepe) to the south it was a center for trade attracting merchants from Assyria at the beginning of the second millennium BC. The city was then destroyed, and this may have been the conquest by the semi-legendary Hittite king Anitta. He is told to have conquered the city of Kussara which can be idenitified with Alişar Hüyük. The Hittites later made Hattusa to the north their capital. By the Hittite empire period 1400-1200 BC Alişar was nothing but a small provincial town probably known as Ankuwa. Like most Hittite settlements it was burnt and destroyed at the end of the Late Bronze Age in the twelfth century BC. The Phrygians later occupied the site. In the vicinity of Alişar laid a large Phrygian Iron Age city at Kerkenes.

The site was first excavated 1927-1932 by the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, headed by H.H. von Otten. Artefacts from the site were brought to the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara. Excavations restarted in 1992 by Turkish archaeologists through the TAY project.

External links[link]

• The Turkish TAY project at Alişar Hüyuk.

Coordinates: 39°36′22″N 35°15′42″E / 39.6061111111°N 35.2615277778°E / 39.6061111111; 35.2615277778

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