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DigsSite Name: Kültepe Kanes Alternative Name: Kaneş, Kaneš, Kanesh
Country: Turkey Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Kayseri  Nearest Village: Kültepe
Latitude: 38.850860N  Longitude: 35.635426E
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Kültepe Kanes
Kültepe Kanes submitted by davidmorgan : Large Palace. The large building contemporary with the second building level (1920 - 1840 BCE) was constructed with wooden beams and large mud bricks on stone foundations, it consists of long and narrow store rooms and a central courtyard paved with flat stones. From the site information board. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Hittite city in Kayseri Province, Turkey, with an early Assyrian trade colony beside it. Later burned down by Babylonians.

Kültepe is the name of the modern village near the ancient city of Kaneš in central eastern Anatolia. The nearest modern city is Kayseri, about 20 km south-west. The quarter of the city of most interest to archaeologists is the Kârum Kaneš, "merchant-colony city of Kaneš" in Assyrian (rendered Karum Kaneş in Turkish).

During the Bronze Age in this region, the Kârum was a portion of the city set aside by local officials for the early Assyrian merchants to use without paying taxes, as long as the goods remained inside the kârum. The term kârum means "port" in Akkadian, the lingua franca of the time, although it was extended to refer to any trading colony whether it bordered water or not.

Several other cities in Anatolia also had kârum, but the largest was Kaneš. This important kârum was inhabited by merchants from Assyria for hundreds of years, who traded local tin and wool for luxury items, foodstuffs and spices, and, woven fabrics from the Assyrian homeland and from Elam

Note: Huge 4000 year old amphoras discovered, which would be hard to produce even with today’s technology, see the comments on our page for more
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Kültepe Kanes
Kültepe Kanes submitted by davidmorgan : The Tower Building. The building constructed of large stone blocks has a square plan with four towers. It is contemporary with building level IB at Karum (1800-1750 BCE) and one of the temples King Anitta of Neša constructed at Kültepe. From the site information board. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Kültepe Kanes
Kültepe Kanes submitted by davidmorgan : King Warsama's Palace. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Kültepe Kanes submitted by davidmorgan : Ongoing excavations at Kaneš. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Kültepe Kanes
Kültepe Kanes submitted by davidmorgan : King Warsama's Palace. Dating from around 1800 - 1750 BCE, it was constructed on top of an older palace. It has many rooms of varying sizes made of plastered large mud bricks on stone foundations. It is surrounded by an inner city wall made of large stone blocks and beams. At some stage it was destroyed by fire. From the site information board. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Giant amphoras unearthed in Kültepe by davidmorgan on Sunday, 27 September 2015
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Three massive, mysterious amphoras have been unearthed during excavations in the Kaniş-Kültepe-Karum archaeological field in Kayseri. While still unsure as to their use, experts say it be difficult to produce the amphoras, even with today’s technology.

The three structures, which have a capacity of about 2.5 to 3 tons each, were discovered in the southern section of the palace area.

Archaeological works in one of Turkey’s most important excavation fields, the Kültepe-Kaniş-Karum mound, have unearthed huge amphoras from 4,000 years ago.

The head of the excavations, Ankara University Professor Fikri Kulakoğlu, said that during works in the southern part of the excavation field, they had found the amphoras in different sizes next to each other. “The amphoras can easily take six-seven people at one time.”

He said two of the amphoras had been unearthed up to their top portions, while works were continuing for the removal of the third one. The excavations in Kültepe frequently reveal surprises every year, but this is the first time something like the massive amphoras have been discovered, he said.

The three structures, which have a capacity of about 2.5 to 3 tons each, were discovered in the southern section of the palace area, Kulakoğlu said.

“Since the third amphora has received too much damage, we did not want to remove the earth on it in the initial stage. We saw that the top parts of the other two amphoras were broken and that the broken pieces had fallen into the cubes. We removed these pieces and numerated them. When the work is done, we will try to fix the cubes like their originals,” said Kulakoğlu.

The professor said the first examinations showed that people had fixed the amphoras with lead 4,000 years ago instead of throwing the broken portions away. “It is also significant that the amphoras were repaired in their original location,” he added.

Kulakoğlu said the examinations also showed that the amphoras had been used to keep grain and that they had taken samples to find out what exactly had been kept in the amphoras. “Archaeobotany experts will be able to find out what was in them,” he said.

The professor said it would have been impossible to produce the giant amphoras elsewhere before bringing them to their current resting place. “We believe that they were produced in this place, which was the storage unit of the palace administrator. After finding the amphoras, we talked to masters in Nevşehir, known as the center of this profession. They told us that the amphoras had been produced on a wheel in their current place within a few days. We discovered that they were not produced as a whole but in pieces. Then these pieces were joined.”

Kulakoğlu said the cubes were cooked in a furnace-like place created around the field.

“It is even hard to produce such big amphoras with today’s technological capacity. It is very important that they were produced 4,000 years ago and used without any damage,” he said, adding they hoped to find other different surprises during the excavations in Kültepe.

Source: Hürriyet
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Monumental structure shown to be largest one in Middle East by davidmorgan on Monday, 11 November 2013
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This year the Kültepe archaeological excavations have unearthed a large monument. The monument is believed to have been a government building, says the head of the excavations.

This year’s excavations at Kayseri’s ancient site of Kültepe, a center where the written history of Anatolia began, have unearthed a large monument. The ancient monument will now be carefully examined, said the head of the Kültepe excavations Fikri Kulakoğlu.

He said the excavations had been conducted in an area dating back to 4,500 years ago and currently they were working on the monument.

The monument’s 75x60-meter-part has been unearthed, said Kulakoğlu. “This monumental structure is the largest building that has been found in the Anatolian and middle Eastern areas.”

Noting that the whole monument might be something like a directorial building but not a house, Kulakoğlu said they thought that it might be the directorial venue where the king had stayed, once upon a time.

He added that they might reach many important documents to enlighten the ancient times during the excavations, and continued: “We think that we can find some documents from Syria, an area that we call Tell Beydar. These things show us that there was trade in the past and the trade took place mainly in Kültepe.” The documents are very important, according to Kulakoğlu. “We believe that the Kaniş, Karum and Kültepe area has a 550-meter diameter and 20-meter height. The settlement in the tumulus is composed of segments from the early Bronze Age, the middle Bronze Age, the Iron Age, and Ancient Greece and Rome. The most important of these documents is the tablet from 2000 B.C., which explains that there were local kingdoms in Anatolia at that time and the Kaniş Kingdom was the most powerful local kingdom in Anatolia. Merchants from Asur, which is 1,000 kilometers away, came to Kaniş to use the natural sources of Anatolia,” explained Kulakoğlu.

Kulakoğlu said that Kültepe was a center where the history of Anatolia began. He said that Assyrian traders came to Kültepe 4,000 years ago and brought literacy to people there and, thanks to them, Anatolia had entered into the written history for the first time.

This year’s excavations show that the 4,000-year-old history could be traced back to an earlier time. So far, 23,500 cuneiform tablets have been found in excavations here but Kültepe is a very large area. The team believes that only 1 percent of this area has been excavated so far. Therefore the number of these tablets will reach to a few thousands. This is the biggest collection in the whole of Asia. It is known that the Kültepe excavations had entered the 66th year.

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Turkish archeologists find 4,000 year-old trade deal in Anatolia by davidmorgan on Tuesday, 31 August 2010
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From coldrum:

Archeologists have unearthed the tablets of first written trade agreement in Anatolia.

Professor Cahit Gunbatti of Ankara University's Faculty of Letters, History and Geography said the first written trade agreement in Anatolia was made 4,000 years ago.

"We have discovered the cuneiform-script tablets in Kultepe-Karum excavations in (the Central Anatolian province of) Kayseri," Gunbatti told AA correspondent.

Archeologists have been carrying out excavations in Karum hamlet near Kultepe tumulus, where Assyrians used to live, since 1948. They have unearthed some 23,000 cuneiform-script tablets so far.

"Around 4,500 tablets have been smuggled abroad since 1948," Gunbatti said. Gunbatti said Assyrian tradesmen who settled in the region 4,000 years ago sold the tin and fabrics they brought from Mesopotamia.

The two tablets indicated that the oldest trade agreement in Anatolia was made 4,000 years ago, Gunbatti said.

"The Assyrian Kingdom in Mesopotamia made written trade agreements with Kanesh Kingdom and Hahhum Kingdom near Adiyaman," he said.

Kultepe is a modern village near the ancient city of Kanesh, located in Kayseri.

Kanesh, inhabited continuously from the Chalcolithic period down to Roman times, flourished most strongly as an important merchant colony (karum) of the Old Assyrian kingdom, from ca. 20th to 16th centuries BC. A late (c 1400 BC) witness to an old tradition includes a king of Kanesh called Zipani among seventeen local city-kings who rose up against the Akkadian Naram-Sin (ruled c.2254-2218).

It is the site of discovery of the earliest traces of the Hittite language, and the earliest attestation of any Indo-European language, dated to the 20th century BC.

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Re: Kaneš by coldrum on Saturday, 19 June 2010
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Digs reveal prisons used in ancient Anatolia

There were detention facilities in Anatolia as far back as 4,000 years ago, according to Professor Fikri Kulakoğlu, who is currently in charge of excavations at Kültepe in Kayseri.


Speaking to the Anatolia news agency on Friday, Kulakoğlu said their excavation work at Kültepe has revealed information about the lifestyles of peoples living there thousands of years ago, including new discoveries about the penal system that was in place 4,000 years ago. “In the inscriptions we found, for example, there are many terms used regarding going to prison, release from prison and facing punishment in prison. It is a significant indication that there were many prisons in Anatolia approximately 4,000 years ago.”

Kulakoğlu also noted that since excavations began in 1948, nearly 23,500 items have been found in Kültepe. Material was written in the cuneiform script, which is believed to have been invented by Sumerians and was subsequently adapted for writing in the Akkadian language, of which Babylonian and Assyrian are dialects. The material that has been found is now on display at the Kayseri Archaeological Museum and Ankara’s Museum of Anatolian Civilizations.

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/news-210229-digs-reveal-prisons-used-in-ancient-anatolia.html
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