The Hittite Seaport Izziya at Late Bronze Age Kinet Höyük (Cilicia)

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ID4587152
AutoresMarie-Henriette Gates, Marie‐henriette Gates (0000-0001-7534-923X, autor correspondente)
Ano2013
Volume76
Fascículo4
Páginas223-234
Data de publicação2013-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoNear Eastern Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1094-2076 • E-ISSN: 1557-5594
EditoraUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5615/neareastarch.76.4.0223
OpenAlexW2487182500
IdiomaDE
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas4

Recent excavations at Kinet Höyük, an ancient Cilician seaport in the northeastern Mediterranean, document the cultural transformations that were exerted by the Late Bronze Age Hittite state to secure its peripheral territories. During the Middle Bronze Age, Kinet Höyük had maintained its regional identity while prospering from the maritime commercial network that flourished along the Levantine coast. This regional profile changed when Kinet Höyük and its Cilician neighbors came under Hittite pressure ca. 1500 b.c.e., and adopted the material culture of central Anatolia. As the Hittite seaport Izziya, Kinet Höyük shows that the Anatolianizing process was sudden, effective, and enduring

Addendum · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Bronze · Bronze Age · Excavation · Geography · Hittite language · Archaeology and Historical Studies · History · Law, logistics, and international trade · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology · Philosophy