Coba Höyük
Late Chalcolithic/Uruk and Neo-Hittite |
Coba Höyük, also known as Sakçe Gözü or Sakçagözü, is an archaeological site in southeastern Anatolia. It is located about three kilometres north-west of the modern village of
History
The site appears to have been occupied on and off from the second half of the seventh millennium BC until the first millennium BC. The excavations were small scale and an exact stratigraphical sequence cannot reliably be constructed.
In the first millennium BC the site was part of a Neo-Hittite state, the name of the city is not known. City walls and a palace of the bit-hilani[1] type were found at the site and date to around 730-700 B.C.
Archaeology
The site was first discovered in 1883 by
The site was re-excavated in 1949 by a team led by
Objects excavated at Sakçagözü can be found at museums such as the
See also
Notes
- ISBN 978-1-57506-117-7
- ^ Ali Çi̇fçi̇: John Garstang and Sakçagözü Excavations (1908-1911). Tarih İncelemeleri Dergisi. Xxxiv / 2, 2019, 369-386
- ^ du Plat Taylor, J., Seton Williams, M. V., and Waechter, J. 1950. "The Excavations at Sakce Gözü" Iraq. Vol. 12, no. 2. pp. 53
External links
- Reliefs from Sakçagözü on the "Hittite monuments" website.
- Coba Höyük's page on the TAY project
References
- du Plat Taylor, J., Seton Williams, M. V., and Waechter, J. 1950. "The Excavations at Sakce Gözü" Iraq. Vol. 12, no. 2. pp. 53–138.