Where were the Cappadocian tablets found?

The so-called Cappadocian tablets were primarily found at Kültepe in central Turkey, the site of the ancient city of Kanesh (also known as Nesha).123

While the tablets were known to archaeologists in the 19th century, their specific source was identified in 1925 by Bedřich Hrozný in a fortified, crescent-shaped area located to the south and southeast of the main city mound. This area, known as Karum Kanesh, served as a trading outpost for Assyrian merchants. Subsequent excavations, particularly those led by Tahsin and Nimet Özgüç starting in 1948, uncovered thousands of additional tablets, including some within the city mound itself.14

Although the vast majority of these documents stem from Kanesh, similar texts have also been discovered at other sites in central Anatolia, such as Alişar Hüyük and Boğazköy (the site of the Hittite capital).1