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Yeşilhisar

Location:

  • Türkiye, Keşlik
  • geo:38.384827,35.051121
  • Location uncertain

Period or year:

  • -7xx~ / unknown

Class:

  • Relief, votiv stone or altar
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=20671

Annotations

The Keşlik Stele in Neo Hitite relief made of brown basalt in the VIIIth century BC. Storm-God Tarhunza holding grapes and a long stem of wheat is shown in a pose similar to that of İvriz.

See:

  1. John David Hawkins: Corpus of hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions. Vol 1. Inscriptions of the Iron Age. Part 1: Text: Introduction, Karatepe, Karkamiš, Tell Ahmar, Maraş, Malatya, Commagene. de Gruyter, Berlin 2000, pp. 351 diff.
  2. https://www.hittitemonuments.com/keslik/
  3. Anna Lanaro, A goddess among Storm-gods. The stele of Tavşantepe and the landscape monuments of southern Cappadocia, in: Anatolian Studies 65- 2005, pp. 79-96

Nearby

Keşlik Yayla, Quarry

The stone quarry and workshop.

Yeşilhisar (3 km)

Bizantune Churchs complex.

Zengibar Kalesi (6 km)

Bizantine fortress


This object was added by Elżbieta on 2015-06-11. Last update by Elżbieta on 2018-12-11. Persistent URI: http://vici.org/vici/20671 . Download as RDF/XML, GeoJSON, KML.
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