Posted on 09/05/2008 9:48:29 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Today, excavators at the Oymaagac mound in the Black Sea city of Samsun's Vezirkopru district are reveling in their potential find, believing the evidence is mounting and Oymaagac will be unveiled as the holder of Nerik. The geographical location of Oymaagac, the impressive representative building on top of the acropolis, and especially the tiny cuneiform writing style on the tablet fragments all suggested the excavators might find Nerik here... the tiny cuneiform writing resembled that on clay tablets from the Bogazkoy/Hattusha archives dealing with Nerik... the writings, along with several ritual texts from the Hittite period, suggested Oymaagac had to be equated with the important Hittite cultic city of Nerik... the fragments of cuneiform tablets... [are] the northernmost written sources found in Hittite Anatolia... late Iron Age domestic structures, including pits and the foundation walls of several dwellings, set into the debris of the preceding monumental Hittite structure... evidence of weaving and cloth production on a large scale... several cist graves with multiple burials from the Roman era, Zimmerman said.
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Their holy city was guarded by the Knights Who Said Ni.
Nerik was closer than their city of Farik.
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