In Hettite texts is mentioned that the king came to the town and went directly to the Huwasistone of the Weather god.

[3] Sarissa was founded in the 16th century BC as a midsized provincial town, close to Kussara.

The main deity of Sarissa was the Weather-God; he is named in the treaty between Hattusili III and Rameses II.

[5] Fragments of a Mycenaean pottery vessel was found in one room of the north-western city gate.

Mycenaean vessels are otherwise extremely rare in Hittite context, while they are very common at other places in the Mediterranean.

In early Roman times a single tumulus tomb was built at the highest point.

The stone built chamber was found looted but contained the remains of 6 skeletons.

Dirk Mielke identified from the 16th to 13th centuries BC three "pottery horizons" and two Hittite building layers of different character.