. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . ,^ EXCAVATIONS AT BOGHAZ-KEUI WINCKLER AND PUCHSTEIN. 695 e on pi. 8), doubtless for the statue of the god who was here ven-erated. Winckler surmises that it was the god Teshub who oncedwelt in this principal temple of Chatti. The general arrangement of the temple was typical. Kohl provedthe existence of, and then excavated, three other buildings of thesame kind in the ancient city area—in the upper city. They arelocated, like the large one, upon natural terraces. A fifth building,close to the structure at the east ga
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . ,^ EXCAVATIONS AT BOGHAZ-KEUI WINCKLER AND PUCHSTEIN. 695 e on pi. 8), doubtless for the statue of the god who was here ven-erated. Winckler surmises that it was the god Teshub who oncedwelt in this principal temple of Chatti. The general arrangement of the temple was typical. Kohl provedthe existence of, and then excavated, three other buildings of thesame kind in the ancient city area—in the upper city. They arelocated, like the large one, upon natural terraces. A fifth building,close to the structure at the east gate, where in 1906 some tentativedigging was done, exhibits an entirely different plan. It seems tohave been a palace. The latter, like the four temples, exhibits pecu-liar elements within the type of old oriental architecture and is spe-cifically North Hittite. We have thus gained a clear conceptionof the manner of building characteristic of the interior of AsiaMinor in the second millenium B. C. The importance of the site of the city has been pointed out byWinckler. The a
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