AKHİSAR’DAKİ SON ARKEOLOJİK KAZI SONUÇLARININ EVLİYA ÇELEBİ’NİN SEYAHATNAMESİ’YLE BAĞLANTI KURULARAK DEĞERLENDİRİLMESİ

EVALUATION OF THE RESULTS OF THE LAST ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS IN AKHISAR BY ESTABLISHING A CONNECTION WITH EVLIYA ÇELEBI’S

Özet

Manisa’nın Akhisar ilçe merkezinde yer alan Thyateira antik kentinin bir

Abstract

The Hastane Mound, a part of the ancient city Thyateira, located in the centreof Manisa’s district Akhisar, had been inhabited since Prehistoric Ages and wasused as the city’s acropolis in antiquity and as a necropolis in one period. Themound, clear that it had been converted into a not very high castle surroundedby walls in the Turkish period, became a serious damage because of massiveconstruction works. A monumental building that was found during thearchaelogical excavations on the Hastane Mound, is located on the peak of themound. The matter that when Evliya Çelebi visited Akhisar in the year 1671 andthe remains of this building, which belongs to a temple or an altar and is locatedeastwards and westwards, could be also seen inside the castle, makes it possiblethat it was better preserved than its condition today through archaeologicalexcavations.