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Geoffrey & Françoise
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The position and relative importance of each gate is related to communications within and beyond the city, three providing access to major routes. The "Cappadocia Gate" leads southwards from the high southern sector of public buildings. The road from the "North Gate" passed the monument at Karabaş towards Kuşaklı Höyük and thence northwards or westwards. The "East Gate", which in moments of exuberance we call the "Ecbatana Gate", leads in the direction of the modern highway to the east. The street running along the north side of the palace widens into a plaza before veering down the slope to the "Göz Baba Gate" and thence along the ridge of the Kerkenes Dağ to the Göz Baba monument on its summit (Summers and Summers 1994). The "Water Gate" and the "North-East Gate" seem to be of more local significance. Broad roads within the city link these gates. Between the "Cappadocia Gate" and the "East Gate" a road passes the imperial stables on the left and the great circular pound on the right, then skirts the rocky tor to which later occupation was confined but which was of no obvious significance during the life of the city. The original scheme seems also to have included a military road around the inside face of the city wall, but if so, like the defences themselves, it was unfinished and later encroached upon.
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