From the Margin of the Hittite State to the Capital of the Kingdom of Medid: The Late Bronze Age and Iron Age Developments at Arslantepe

The article presents an updated synthesis of the whole set of archaeological activities conducted over the years at Arslantepe on the Late Bronze and Iron Age levels. It aims at comprehensively summarizing the results obtained on the field and contextualizing them into their historical framework so as to provide a coherent picture of the site's development approximately from the 17th to the 7th century BC