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Location:

  • Türkiye, Adakale
  • geo:37.5084,33.070427
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -7xx / unknown

Class:

  • Relief, votiv stone or altar
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=20662

Annotations

The Hartapu Monument that is situated just near the top of the mountain, consits of  the " Throne Relief" with Inscription of the king`s name  "The  Great King, Hartapu.". To the left remained a second inscription: "Beloved(?) (of) the mighty Storm-God, the Sun, Great King, Hartapu."

See:

  1. Tayfun Bilgin, Kızıldağ - Hartapu Monument - https://www.hittitemonuments.com/kizildag/
  2. John David Hawkins: Corpus of hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions. Band 1: Inscriptions of the Iron Age. Teil 1: Introduction, Karatepe, Karkamiš, Tell Ahmar, Maraş, Malatya, Commagene. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2000, pp. 433–441, Tafeln 236–239, 242.
  3. Ömür Harmanşah, Place, Memory, and Healing: An Archaeology of Anatolian Rock Monuments, Routledge 2014
  4. idem: "Moving Landscapes, Making Place : Cities, Monuments and Commemoration at Malizi/Melid " Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 24.1:, 211, pp. 55-83

Nearby

Binbir Kilise at Üçkuyu Köyü (9 km)

Thousand and One Churches - Üçkuyu Köyü/Karaman Merkez

Üçkuyu, Binbirkilise XXXI (9 km)

The church Binbir Kilise at Turkey, Karaman, Üçkuyu, village.


This object was added by Elżbieta on 2015-06-10. Last update by Elżbieta on 2023-12-13. Persistent URI: http://vici.org/vici/20662 . Download as RDF/XML, GeoJSON, KML.
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