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Storm-god statueStorm God of Domuztepe

Location:

  • Türkiye, Haci Hatipler
  • geo:37.296387,36.252468
  • Location ± 100-500 m.

Period or year:

  • -12xx / -680~

Class:

  • City
  • visible

Annotations

Karatepe remains are organized as an open air museum - Karatepe Aslantaş Açık Hava Müzesi but some sculptures are collected in a small museum building at the top of the town. The site was discovered by Prof. Helmut Bossert (1889-1961) and Dr. Halet Çambel (1916-2014) in 1946.  Azatiwataya was a city of king Azatiwataš of the eigth century BC.

See:

  1. Benno Landsberger, Sam'al, Studien zur Entdeckung der Ruinenstaette Karatepe, Druckerei der Türkischen Historischen Gesellschaft, 1948
  2. J. D. Hawkins and A. Morpurgo Davies, On the Problems of Karatepe: The Hieroglyphic Text, Anatolian Studies, vol. 28, 1978, pp. 103–119

Nearby

Karatepe – Azatiwataya

Building where are collected som sculpture from the city.


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