Arslantepe
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thumb|A Hittite lion from the Neo-Hittite era (1180-700 BC) at the entrance to the ruins of Arslantepe. thumb|A Hittite relief of a libation to Tiwaz and Arma from the ruins of Arslantepe at the [[Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara.]] Arslantepe, also known as Melid, was an ancient city on the Tohma River, a tributary of the upper Euphrates rising in the Taurus Mountains. It has been identified with the modern archaeological site of Arslantepe near Malatya, Turkey.
In the Vinony graph
Vinony catalogs Arslantepe in its UNESCO World Heritage collection (3,384 entries).
Vinony's link graph records 1,325 inbound references to Arslantepe, and connects out to World Heritage Site, Troy and Malatya.
The entry is geolocated on the map, across 2 mapped points.
Vinony files it under Archaeological sites in the Eastern Anatolia region, Archaeometallurgy and Buildings and structures in Malatya Province.
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Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Melid
- Ancient site.map_type
- Turkey
- Ancient site.relief
- yes
- Ancient site.location
- Turkey
- Ancient site.region
- Malatya Province
- Ancient site.type
- Settlement
- Ancient site.excavations
- 1932-1939, 1946-1951, 1961-1968
- Ancient site.archaeologists
- Louis Delaporte, Claude F.A. Schaeffer, Piero Meriggi, Salvatore M. Puglisi, Alba Palmieri
- Ancient site.condition
- In ruins
- Ancient site.designation1
- WHS
- Ancient site.designation1_offname
- Arslantepe Mound
- Ancient site.designation1_criteria
- (iii)
- Ancient site.designation1_date
- 2021 (44th session)
- Ancient site.designation1_number
- 1622
- Ancient site.designation1_free1name
- Area
- Ancient site.designation1_free2name
- Buffer zone
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- archaeological site
- Country
- Turkey
- Located in
- Battalgazi district
- Area
- 74.07
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Image
- Arslantepe7.jpg
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- Commons category
- Arslantepe
- heritage designation
- Tentative World Heritage Site
- located in/on physical feature
- Eastern Anatolia Region
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- History
- Late Chalcolithic
- Early Bronze
- Late Bronze Age
- Iron Age
- Archaeology
- Early swords and metal trade
- Expansion of Kura–Araxes and trade in ores
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
thumb|A Hittite lion from the Neo-Hittite era (1180-700 BC) at the entrance to the ruins of Arslantepe. thumb|A Hittite relief of a libation to Tiwaz and Arma from the ruins of Arslantepe at the [[Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara.]] Arslantepe, also known as Melid, was an ancient city on the Tohma River, a tributary of the upper Euphrates rising in the Taurus Mountains. It has been identified with the modern archaeological site of Arslantepe near Malatya, Turkey.
It was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site under the name Arslantepe Mound in 2021. As of 2025 it is closed for maintenance.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Arslantepe” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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On the map
2 mapped locations