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Multi-periodSite Name: Ayasuluk Hill Alternative Name: Apasa, Ayasuluk HöyükCountry: Turkey Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Selçuk
Latitude: 37.953161N Longitude: 27.367060E
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 |
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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 |
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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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Tdiver visited on 1st Jan 2013 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 4
Under the 8th century CE Byzantine/11 century CE Turkish fortress and 4th CE basilica of St John, there are remains earlier remains of fortifications from the Hittite era around the middle of the second millennium BCE as well as from the Mycenaeans.
This has only been found out since 2000.
Cylinder seals indicate the site was Apasa, part of the Arzawa region, which was a Hittite seafaring vassal state which later turned on them around 1200 BCE during the so called Sea People invasions which also troubled the Egyptians.
The Mycenaeans also appear to have carved out a small zone from here to Didyma, as is evidenced by a small tholos and Mycenaean ceramics at this location. About 1050 BC the Hill was captured by Greek settlers under the legendary Androclus and began to be called Ephesus.
In the next couple of years, local archaeologists will dig inside the fortress to get to the heart of the matter.
This was the original location of Ephesus before it moved out to the Roman era location several kilometres away. It is however very close to the site of the Ephesus Temple of Artemis.
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