Excavations at the Cappadocia Gate - Kerkenes Final Reports 1

The city on the Kerkenes Dag in the high plateau of central Turkey was a new Iron Age capital, very probably Pteria. Founded in the later seventh century BC, it was burned in the mid sixth century and then abandoned. Between 1999 and 2011 one of the seven city gates was excavated in its entirety and these are the results of those excavations.

Summary

The city on the Kerkenes Dag in the high plateau of central Turkey was a new Iron Age capital, very probably Pteria. Founded in the later 7th century BC, it was burned in the mid sixth century and then abandoned. Between 1999 and 2011 one of the seven city gates was excavated in its entirety and these are the results of those excavations.

Product details

• Authors: Geoffrey Summers
• Publisher: Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9781614910596
• ISBN: 978-1-61491-059-6
• No. of pages: 408
• Dimensions: 314 mm x 241 mm x 34 mm
• Weight: 2136 g
• Illustrations: 3 figs, 185 pls & 12 tbls.
• Series: Oriental Institute Publications
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous