On your way from Yerkapı to the King's Gate you will pass the three largest temples of the Upper City, Temple 2, 3 and 5. There is reason to believe that these temples are the earliest in the Upper City.
A fair proportion of the wall socles, constructed of great limestone blocks, are preserved in all three. The temple plan is apparent in all three, as well: one entered the building through a gateway and first reached into an open court. Usually opposite was the entrance of a portico, behind which two small rooms led into the cult chamber itself, distinguished by its dimensions as well as by a base for the cult statue. At Temple 5, however, the identical architectural sequence was repeated if someone standing in the courtyard turned 90 ( to his left: again he would see the colonnaded stoa, antechamber and large cult chamber with a statue base. We recognize, therefore, that this temple-like Temple 1-was another sanctuary dedicated to two deities. A further resemblance between these two temples, not to mention the size (Temple 5 is very slightly smaller in area than Temple 1), is seen in the small freestanding structure-perhaps an altar-in the right-hand corner of the inner court. A significant difference between the two temples is the arrangement of the two groups of rooms, which here both open off the west side of the building. This may reflect the different construction date of Temple 5.
Temple 5, like some of the temples in the central temple district, was also connected to an enclosure wall that grouped the temple and several further structures within a temenos, or sacred precinct. Three small one-room structures might be compared to chapels; they may have been smaller additional shrines. A stele with the representation of a warrior in a short skirt and horned pointed hat, holding a lance, was found in one of these. The hieroglyphics above the raised hand of the warrior indicate that the sculpture portrays the Great King Tudhaliya. Because the horns on the headgear symbolize the power of a god, the stele apparently depicts a king already departed from this world and raised into the heavens.
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