On the Origin of Küçükçekmece Iron Figurines1

Abstract

Introduction The 2013 excavations in the Kucukcekmece Lake Basin (in the European part of Istanbul) unearthed two iron figurines (Fig. 1) that have been identified as votive statuettes of Early Hittite-Hurrian type dating to the second quarter of 2nd millennium BC (Aydingun 2013). During the next seasons, archaeologists found fragments of Hittite and Cypriote White Slip wares and a tin figurine nearby, which they interpreted as the traces of the Old Hittite presence in Thrace (Aydingun 2017b:...