The Fasıllar monument is a large statue of the Hittite Storm-god Teshub in a mountain temple, made of basalt stone. It is called locally Kurt Beşiği what means Wolf's Cradle. The monument depicts two gods on top of each other and a pair of lions of the same size and shape, on both sides of the lower figure of a smaller god. It dates to Muwatalli II (c. 1295–1272 BC) or Tudhaliya IV c. 1237 – 1209 BC i.e the second half of the XIIIth century BC1. Some parts of the monument are are very rough, not detailed - unfinished. Fact that the sculpture was discovered just at the quarry suggests that the monument never reached its place of destination.
See:
- Tayfun Bilgin, https://www.hittitemonuments.com/fasillar/
- James Melaart, The Late Bronze Age Monuments of Eflatun Pınar and Fasıllar near Beyşehir, Anatolian Studies 12, 1962: pp. 111-117.
- W. Boyd Barrick, BMH as Body Language: A Lexical and Iconographical Study of the Word BMH When Not a Reference to Cultic Phenomena in Biblical and Post-Biblical Hebrew, Bloomsbury Publishing USA 2008, p. 58
- Asuman Baldıran, Güngör Karauğuz, Bilal Sogut: Centre Unissant Les Cultes Hittites Et Romains : Fasillar, in: Proceedings of the international symposium "Trade and Production through the Ages" Konya, 25-28 November 2008, Selçuk Universitesi Edebiyat Fakultesi, Selcuk 2010, pp. 219-256
- H. G. Güterbock, “Alte und neue hethitische Denkmäler”, in Halil Edhem Hatıra Kitabı, I, 1947, p. 59 ff
- Yiğit H. Erbil, Preliminary report of the Fasıllar Survey, In : Hittitology today: Studies on Hittite and Neo-Hittite Anatolia in Honor of Emmanuel Laroche’s 100th Birthday : 5e Rencontres d'archéologie de l'IFEA, Istanbul 21-22 novembre 2014 [en ligne]. Istanbul : Institut français d’études anatoliennes, 2017 (généré le 14 décembre 2020). Disponible sur Internet : <http://books.openedition.org/ifeagd/3532>. ISBN : 9782362450839. DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/books.ifeagd.3532.
References
- ↑T. Bilgin, hittite monuments, Asuman Baldran at all 2010 date the sculpture to the twelve century BC.