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Location:

  • Türkiye, Yalbur Yaylası
  • geo:38.454693,31.978724
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -1209~ / unknown

Class:

  • Relief, votiv stone or altar
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=20480

Annotations

The inscription in Luwian hieroglyphs  carved on the pool’s walls erected by Tudhaliya IV (1237-1209 BC) in order to commemorate his Lukka campaign.1

It is located c. 23 km. north-west of Köylütolu monument.

  1. https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/fieldwork/yalburt/files/132687.pdf, p. 2nn
  2. Ömür Harmanşah, Place, Memory, and Healing: An Archaeology of Anatolian Rock Monuments, Routledge 2014
  3. https://www.yalburtproject.org/news/
  4. Cem Karasu, Massimo Poetto, S. Ö. Savaş: New Fragments Pertaining to the Hieroglyphic Inscription of Yalburt, in: Archivum Anatolicum 4, 2000: pp. 99-112 - https://www.academia.edu/13386067
  5. Ömür Harmanşah and Peri Johnson, Springs, Caves and the Rural Landscape in Hittite Anatolia:Yalburt .Yaylası Archaeological Landscape Research Project (Ilgın, Konya)Preliminary Results of the 2011 Season
  6. John David Hawkins,Hittite Monuments and Their Sanctity, in: Sacred Landscapes of Hittites and Luwians: Proceedings of the International Conference in Honour of Franca Pecchioli Daddi Florence, February 6th-8th 2014, p. 6-7

References

  1. Ömür Harmanşah, Peri Johnson, Yalburt Yaylası Archaeological Landscape Project 2015 Campaign in: ANMED 2016-14: 296-300 - https://www.academia.edu/27756541


Nearby

Yalburt

Water reservoir XIII century BC.

Çömlekçi Mahallesi Ören (12 km)

Hittite settlement

Aralla (16 km)

Aralla


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