Yesemek
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Gabriel Mckee
Creators: Gabriel Mckee
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jan 28, 2021 04:02 PM
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History
tags:
UWHS Submitted
Quarry and sculpture workshop founded under the Hittite king Suppiluliuma in the 14th century BCE.
Show place in AWMC's Antiquity À-la-carte, Google Earth, or Pelagios' Peripleo.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/129809446
36.9039535045, 36.7470260281
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Yesemek Açıkhava Heykel Atölyesi (1450 BC - 700 BC)
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production center (manufacturing, fishing), quarry
Pleiades
The “Yesemek Quarry and Sculpture Workshop” is located 23 km southeast of the Islahiye district on the West hills of Karatepe (Aslanlıtepe) in the Yesemek Village. The site was added to the tentative list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 2012.
Gabriel Mckee, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Yesemek: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/129809446> [accessed: 21 September 2023]
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