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Andaval: Church of St. Constantine. Ground planAndaval: Church of St. Constantine.Nigde Castle

Location:

  • Türkiye, Aktaş
  • geo:38.01873,34.741001
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -7xx / unknown

Class:

  • Relief, votiv stone or altar
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=25897

Annotations

Andaval Stele, a late Hittite inscription, dating back to the 9th century BC, was found at the base of the Byzantine sixth century basilica, confirming its origin as a building from The Late Hittite period.

Sources:

  1. John David Hawkins, Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions: Inscriptions of the Iron Age (Untersuchungen Zur Indogermanischen Sprach- Und Kulturwissenschaft, N.F., ... Indo-European and Semitic Languages Edition), 2000, pp. 914-515
  2. Winfried Orthmann: Untersuchungen zur späthethitischen Kunst. (= Saarbrücker Beiträge zur Altertumskunde Bd. 8) Habelt, Bonn 1971
  3. 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. 194
  4. Tayfun Bilgin, Andaval - http://www.hittitemonuments.com/andaval/
  5. David Ussishkin, "On the Date of the Neo-Hittite Relief from Andaval," Anadolu (Anatolia) 11, 1967, pp. 197-202.

Nearby

Aktaş - Yenimahalle

VIth century Byzantine basilica. Andabalis. Andaval (Andabalis) Church.

Andabalis

Maniso

Eskigümüş Monastery (3 km)

Gümüşler Monastery


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