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Surroundings:

Tell Qaramel [Tel al-Qaramel] in Syria

Location:

  • Syrian Arab Republic, Jakkah
  • geo:36.607605,37.293327
  • Location ± 100-500 m.

Period or year:

  • -850~ / unknown

Class:

  • Relief, votiv stone or altar
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=25817

Annotations

Stela of Cekke [Jekke] is a basalt stele found near the village of Cekke [Jekke], ca 42 km N of Aleppo, E of  'Azaz. The relief depicts the Storm Gog standing on a bull. God is dressed in a long robe; helmet-like cap. In his outstreched left hand he hold a ligthning and a rope holding the bull. Stele is 1,62 m high and 0,38 m wide.  Aleppo, Museum Inv. 2459.

Sources:

  1. John David Hawkins, Inscriptions of the Iron Age, Part 1: Text, Introduction, Karatepe, Karkamis, Tell Ahmar, Maras, Malatya, Commagene, Walter de Gruyter 2000
  2. Alessandra Gilibert, Syro-Hittite Monumental Art and the Archaeology of Performance: The Stone Reliefs at Carchemish and Zincirli in the Earlier First Millennium BCE, Walter de Gruyter, 2011, pp. 110nn
  3. Ilya Yakubovich,The West Semitic God El in Anatolian Hieroglyphic Transmission in:  Hethitica: Studies on the Hittites and Their Neighbours in Honour of Itamar Singer, Studien zu den Boğazköy-Texten, Bd. 51, Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 2010, pp. 392-393
  4. Anna H Bauer, Morphosyntax of the noun phrase in hieroglyphic Luwian, Brill's studies in Indo-European languages & linguistics, vol. 12, Leiden,  Brill  2014, pp. 304nn
  5. Winfried Orthmann: Untersuchungen zur späthethitischen Kunst. (= Saarbrücker Beiträge zur Altertumskunde Bd. 8) Habelt, Bonn 1971, pp. 45; 102; 147; 157; 234; 239; 360; 482; Taf. 5,d

Nearby

Sikizlar (Sekizler) (4 km)

Neo-Hittite quarry

Tel Battal Shamali (6 km)

Tel Battal Shamali

Tell Qaramel [Tel al-Qaramel] in Syria (6 km)

Neolithic settlement.


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