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Surroundings:

Kululu Stele VStele of Ruwa, Tuwatis's servant, Kululu Stele IVStele of Ilasis, Kululu stele IIIFunerary Stela of Prince PanuniKululu Stele I

Location:

  • Türkiye, Kululu
  • geo:38.971355,36.135529
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -8xx~ / unknown

Class:

  • Vicus or canabae
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=25836

Annotations

Kulului n Eastern Anatolia was an Iron Age town. In the fortress of upper city was unearted plenty of stone human, lion and sphynx statues. The Luwian inscriptions suggested that Kululu can be identified with capital of Tabal Kingdom. 

  1. Trevor Bryce, The Routledge Handbook of the Peoples and Places of Ancient Western Asia: The Near East from the Early Bronze Age to the fall of the Persian Empire, Routledge, 2009, p.395
  2. https://www.hittitemonuments.com/kululu/
  3. http://www.tayproject.org/TAYages.fm$Retrieve?CagNo=9835&html=ages_detail_e.html&layout=web

Nearby

Kululu Stele V

Hieroglyphic Luwian inscription currently in Kayseri Museum.

Kululu Stele IV - Ruwa`s stele

Hieroglyphic Luwian inscription currently in Kayseri Museum.

Kululu Stele III

Hieroglyphic Luwian inscription currently in Kayseri Museum.


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