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Location

  • Türkiye, Gümüşören
  • geo:38.268646,35.629089

Period or year

  • -12xx / unknown

Classification

  • altar
  • Visible

Fraktin (Fıraktın) Relief

data access 20650

Fraktin (Fıraktın) rock relief depicts two groups of figures engaged in religious rite. Luwian hieroglyphic labels identify all protagonists: Weather god, "Great King Hattusili" - Hattušili III, Sun goddess Hebat, and wife of Hattušili III, "Great Queen Puduhepa". Hattusilis III reign: c. 1267 – 1237 BC

Sources:

  1. Kohlmeyer, K. "Felsbilder der hethitischen Großreichszeit", Acta Praehistorica et Archaeologica 15, 1983: 7-154 (67-74).
  2. Charles Burney, Historical Dictionary of the Hittites, Scarecrow Press 2004, sv. Fraktin
  3. James G. Macqueen, The Hittites: And Their Contemporaries in Asia Minor, rev. eds., London, Thames and Hudson 1986, p. 133
  4. Joost Blasweiler, The Kalehisar mountain and the deities of Arinna, the city of the Sun Goddess, Arnhem (nl) 2017 –  1 Anatolia in the bronze age - https://www.academia.edu/30853831
  5. Tayfun Bilgin, Fraktin Relief- Hittite Monuments-https://www.hittitemonuments.com/fraktin/
  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
  7. Daddi Florence, February 6th-8th 2014,p. 3
  8. https://kulturenvanteri.com/tr/harita/

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2015-06-09) , last updated by Ludwinski (2023-07-10), with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/20650
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Suggested citation: Elżbieta and Ludwinski, Fraktin (Fıraktın) Relief. https://vici.org/vici/20650, accessed 2026-11-10.