Die Ausgrabungen in Boğazköy-Ḫattuša 2021

Abstract

The work in the northern Lower City further consolidates the picture of the Hittite and Roman phases of use. On the one hand, it has become clear that the small-scale Hittite structures continue to the east and south on the terrace. On the other hand, in the north of the area, what is possibly the entrance to the bath building of the Roman imperial period from the north, i.e. from the military camp, has been clarified as well as further rooms of the building. Excavations that became necessary on the Büyükkale in parallel with the restoration of Building E not only uncovered previously unknown areas of the Late Iron Age architecture, but surprisingly yielded remains of a Hittite building that possibly constitutes the connection between Building E and the northern courtyard of the Hittite palace. Radiocarbon datings found in the archives of the Boğazköy excavation as well as new radiocarbon samples obtained during the excavations further consolidate the picture of the chronological development of the Hittite as well as the Iron Age period of use in the Lower City and on Büyükkale.