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<< Our Photo Pages >> Acemhöyük - Ancient Village or Settlement in Turkey

Submitted by AlexHunger on Monday, 26 March 2007  Page Views: 9735

Multi-periodSite Name: Acemhöyük Alternative Name: Acem Hoyuk, Purushanda, Burushattum
Country: Turkey
NOTE: This site is 30.493 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Aksaray  Nearest Village: Yesilova
Latitude: 38.411400N  Longitude: 33.835700E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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 4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Acemhöyük submitted by davidmorgan : Situated on three connecting mounds, the whole area is huge. I couldn't find access into the site. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Hattic city state in Aksaray Province, Turkey.

Dating from the 3rd millennium BCE, it became an Assyrian trade colony in about 1800 BCE, then later under Hittite control. It was finally abandoned in the 3rd century CE.
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Oldest Anatolian transcript found in Acemhöyük by davidmorgan on Wednesday, 31 May 2017
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The oldest known written document in Anatolia has been found during excavations in Acemhöyük Mound in the Central Anatolian province of Aksaray. The single-line inscription, carved on a piece of rock crystal, is not only the oldest one in Anatolia but also in Europe.

Located in the south of Lake Tuz, Acemhöyük Mound is one of the oldest kingdom centers in Anatolia. This center is made up of a hill (800x700 meter) and a lower city that surrounds it.

The hill was the kingdom’s acropolis, where the administrative class lived. The lower city, where traders and the public lived, was a kind of international market place.

The Acemhöyük excavations that were initiated in 1982 by Professor Nimet Özgüç have been carried out by Professor Aliye Öztan since 1989.

A total of 12 archaeological layers have been identified in Acemhöyük, dating back to some 4,500 years ago. Özgüç and Öztan compared the results of their excavations with written historical documents and revealed that Acemhöyük was an ancient city of Purushattum.

The first information about the city is mentioned in the Sartamhari (King of War) tablets, which depicts the victories of Sargon, the founder of Akkad city, located in present-day southern Iraq. According to the tablets, traders working in Purushattum complained about the local king of the city to Sargon. Then Sargon came to Anatolia climbing past the Taurus Mountains and seized the city.

In the old Middle East, traders used precision weights to measure their valuable goods. Lots of weights made of various materials have been found in Acemhöyük, which was one of the important trade centers in Anatolia. But a sample that was unearthed last year caused excitement in the excavation team. Because there were some cuneiform symbols on this weight.

Made up of rock crystal, the weight was found in an early Bronze Age structure. The layer of this structure dates back to 2250 B.C., according to radiocarbon dating. Therefore this crystal weight unearthed in this layer becomes the oldest known written document in Anatolia and Europe.

Öztan says works have still been carried out by cuneiform experts to read the inscription. That the symbols on the weight are not readable enough makes the analysis of the inscription hard. This is why it is not still understood if the inscription was written in a local Anatolian language or the international language of the era, Akkadian. But after all, this small finding of 10.4 grams has already gained the title of being the oldest known written document in Anatolia.

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