= Novák M. , Sirkeli Höyük. A central site and gateway community in Kawa/Kizzuwatna/Hiyawa, in: News from the Lands of the Hittites 3/4 143-168. [Abstract: The excavations carried out since 2006 at Sirkeli Höyük in Plain Cilicia have yielded important
insights into the structure and dynamics of the site’s ancient urban landscape. In addition, it has been
possible to provide a great deal of information on the cultural history not only of the site itself, but
also of the region to which it belonged. Starting from a small settlement of the 4th and 3rd millennia
BCE, situated in the shelter of a natural rocky ridge, a complex urban structure developed in the 2nd
millennium BCE, which in its heyday consisted of a bipartite citadel, a lower town, an upper town,
a suburb and extramural workshops. The changing history of the country and the site is reflected in
the architecture and the findings, which absorbed a wide variety of external influences, but always
retained a traditional regional character.] Neue Abfrage | New Search
