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Surroundings:

Storm-god statueNorth Gate - East WallKaratepe - city wallsKaratepe - Hittite lionNorth Gate - East WallCeyhan River at KaratepeKaratepe - Hittite lion (museum)Down to the Ceyhan River - outside the wallsKaratepe - Hittite Storm GodKaratepe - Hittite lion (museum)Azatiwataya - reconstruction planKaratepeKaratepe - Hittite lion (museum)KaratepeKaratepe - Hittite Storm God StatueSouth Gate - West WallSouth Gate - East WallSouth Gate - East Wall - InscriptionSouth Gate -West WallSouth Gate - East Wall - InscriptionSouth Gate - East Wall - InscriptionSouth Gate - East WallNorth Gate - East WallKaratepe - city wallsNorth Gate - East WallKaratepe - Hittite sculpture

Location:

  • Türkiye, Pınarözü
  • geo:37.286133,36.26202
  • Location ± 100-500 m.

Period or year:

  • -800~ / unknown

Class:

  • Relief, votiv stone or altar
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=26492

Annotations

Halet Çambel unearthed In 1982 on the south slope of the hill  an 80 cm tall stele depicting a horThere were several portal lions and a few highly eroded steles.It dates around the 9th or 8th century BC a little earlier than karatepe itself.

Sources:

  1. Çambel, H. Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions, Vol. 2: Karatepe-Aslantaş, Berlin. 1999: 1–11, 94–95 and plts. 122–25.
  2. J. D.  Hawkins, Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions, Vol 1, Berlin, 2000: 71.
  3.  Winfried Orthmann,  Untersuchungen zur späthethitischen Kunst, Bonn, 1971: 110–12, 482–83, Taf. 6.

Nearby

Domuztepe on the Ceyhan

Nowadays flooded with water - Late Hittite fortified settlement

Karatepe – Azatiwataya, Statue of Storm-god (1 km)

Hittite Storm-god statue

Azatiwada inscription, Karatepe (1 km)

Karatepe Bilingual


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