The Excavations at Boğazköy-Hattuša in 2014

Abstract

South of Kesikkaya, the Iron Age structures have largely been clarified. A picture is emerging of the dynamic development of a public building that was used and modified several times between the 8th and 6th cent. B.C. A fortification from this period makes use of the Hittite Postern Wall as a socle. In the subsequent phase, the ruins of the Iron Age structures were partly integrated into a defensive complex of the Hellenistic period. In the north section of the Lower City, excavations near Mıhraplıkaya have investigated an elaborate building of the Roman Imperial period that is associated with the niche in the rock. In the 2nd half of the 4th cent. A.D. this building was succeeded by another complex – probably to be interpreted as a military camp – which, from its elevated position, controlled the southern Budaközü plain and the roads through the upland area.