The site of Kültepe, the ancient city of Kaneš, near Kayseri in Anatolia, includes several monumental structures on its mound. Current excavations are concentrated on a large complex that dates to the Early Bronze Age.1 This contribution focuses on the Middle Bronze Age palaces whose archaeological data were published by T. Özgüç in 1999. Our knowledge on these structures, and especially of the ‘Waršama Palace’, is incomplete because the ruins suffered much during the explorations in the early 20th century and the phase-out period which followed. As a consequence, no complete plan of these buildings is available. Among the forty cuneiform tablets found on the mound, only a dozen were located near the Old Palace and ‘Waršama Palace’; we do not have any local official archives, if they ever existed. Nevertheless, the numerous tablets, excavated in the houses of the Assyrian merchants who were settled in the lower town, document the Anatolian palace and its administration from an outsider’s point of view.