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Location:

  • Türkiye, Boğazkale
  • geo:40.013058,34.617542
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -1200~ / unknown

Class:

  • Relief, votiv stone or altar
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=24116

Annotations

Inscriptions in Luvian hieroglyphs at Nişantaş, dates to Şuppiluliuma II (ruling c. 1207–1178 BC) at  the base of Nisantepe in the Upper City of Hattusa.

See:

  1. James G. Macqueen, The Hittites: And Their Contemporaries in Asia Minor, rev. eds., London, Thames and Hudson 1986, pp.23-24
  2. Gary Beckman, Constructing Sacred Space in Hittite Anatolia, in: Heaven on Earth: Temples, Ritual, and Cosmic Symbolism in the Ancient World eds.Deena Ragavan, OIS 9, Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 2013, pp. 153-173

Relevant museums

Istanbul Archaeology Museums

Istanbul Archaeology Museums


Nearby

Hattusa (Hattuşaş)

Nisantas - remnants of some building on the rock.

Southern Citadel at Hattusa

Fortifications of the city

Hattusa (Hattuşaş), Nisantas

Nisantas North Complex


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