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ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPE · 02

The Great Temple and its storerooms

Large vessels and storerooms allowed the conservation of the products the temple needed.

Museum documentation · free public access, no account required.

DECLARED VISUAL RECONSTRUCTION · AI-GENERATED IMAGE · TRACEKEEPERS

Generated reconstruction · Declared visual hypothesis

Declared visual reconstruction, created for museographic contextualisation; not a photograph of the original nor does it constitute documentary evidence.

Image of The Great Temple and its storerooms
DECLARED VISUAL RECONSTRUCTION · AI-GENERATED IMAGE · TRACEKEEPERS

Generated reconstruction · Declared visual hypothesis

Declared visual reconstruction, created for museographic contextualisation; not a photograph of the original nor does it constitute documentary evidence.

History and context

The complex changed over centuries and was not a single-function building.

Evidence and interpretation

Synthesis based on UNESCO · Hattusha; UNESCO Memory of the World · Hittite tablets; DAI · The Great Temple. The comparison serves to formulate questions, not to fill gaps in the record with certainties.

Catalogue facts

Civilisation or trajectory
Hittite
Scope
Infrastructure and Landscape
Main area
Hattusa and the central Anatolian plateau.

A closer look

About 1 min to read · 1 section. Further reading and sources · free access. Editorial review recorded: .

The date of the complex is revised with the excavation archives

The study by Andreas Schachner published in 2024 brings together research on the Great Temple and its neighbouring buildings carried out between 1907 and 1969. The re-evaluation of plans, sequences and documentation modifies both functional interpretations and the foundation chronology of the complex. Its construction is linked to the formative phase of Hittite power and the urban transformation of Hattusa. The monumental aspect preserved does not oblige attributing everything to the last kings: a building can have a long institutional history before reaching its final configuration.

Location and territory

Physical world map with routes of human evolutionPresent-day world coastline from Natural Earth in an equirectangular projection. The overlaid markers let you explore each milestone.Map base: Natural Earth 1:110m · public domain · present-day reference coastline

REGIONAL AREA

Central Anatolia and, in imperial phases, northern SyriaCentral Anatolia and, in imperial phases, northern Syria. The footprint marks the indicative center of the area, not a border or an exact point.

Sources and references

Consult the sources of this cultural synthesis

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