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DigsSite Name: Kültepe Kanes Alternative Name: Kaneş, Kaneš, KaneshCountry: Turkey Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Kayseri Nearest Village: Kültepe
Latitude: 38.850860N Longitude: 35.635426E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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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
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