Excavations at the Cappadocia Gate: Kerkenes Final Reports 1

by Geoffrey D. Summers and Summers

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, the city was put to the torch in the mid sixth century and then abandoned. Between 1999 and 2011 what we have called the Cappadocia Gate, one of the seven city gates that pierce the 7 km of strong stone defenses, was excavated in its entirety. This volume documents as fully as possible the results...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1614910596
• ISBN13: 9781614910596
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 4.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 9.2" x 12.1"