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Tel Amhar Stele ITil Barsip, Relief king Asarhadon sacrificing a slaveTil Barsip, Stele with Tahunda, god of the thurderstorm, erected by prince HamiyatasTil Barsip, Ivory showing paesants with fruits of the landTil Barsip, Relief king Asarhadon sacrificing a slaveTil Barsip, Vase with humanshaped  pouring spoutTil Barsip, Seal with a rosette on top side and a standing human figure, dressed in a long garment, on a flat base, surrounded by 4 Luwian hieroglyphic signsTil Barsip, Palace painting of a goat, explanationTil Barsip, Vase with humanshaped  pouring spoutTil Barsip, Stele with relief of Teshub, the Hurian god of storm and skyTil Barsip, Palace painting of a goatTil Barsip, Orthostate with warriorTil Barsip, Stele with relief of Teshub, the Hurian god of storm and skyTil Barsip, Palace painting of a goatTil Barsip, Stele with relief of Teshub, the Hurian god of storm and skyTil Barsip, Palace painting of a protecting genius, element of a frieze in de bathroomTil Barsip, Stele with relief of Teshub, the Hurian god of storm and skyTil Barsip, Palace painting of a protecting genius, element of a frieze in de bathroomTil Barsip, Stele with relief of Teshub, the Hurian god of storm and skyTil Barsip, Palace painting of servants behing the throneTil Barsip, Stele with relief of Teshub, the Hurian god of storm and skyTil Barsip, Palace painting of servants behing the throneTil Barsip, Bronze bowl from tomb from Aachaemenid periodTil Barsip, Stele with relief of Teshub, the Hurian god of storm and skyTil Barsip, Stele of goddess Ishtar from the Arbeles shrineTil Barsip, Bronze bowl from tomb from Aachaemenid periodTil Barsip, Painting of 2 Assyrian dignitariesTil Barsip, Stele of goddess Ishtar from the Arbeles shrine, explanationTil Barsip, Relief of the goddess AsheraTell Ahmar/Qubbah stele

Location:

  • Syrian Arab Republic, Zarkawtak
  • geo:36.687317,38.11821
  • Location ± 100-500 m.

Period or year:

  • -890~ / unknown

Class:

  • Relief, votiv stone or altar
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=26846

Annotations

Tell Ahmar II stele depicts the Storm-god figure below a winged sun-disk. 10-line hieroglyphic Luwian inscription described  the dedication of the stele by king Hamiyata to the gods. Stele was found in 1928 near Tell Ahmar by villagers

  1. Guy Bunnens,A New Luwian Stele and the Cult of the Storm-god at Til Barsib-Masuwari,  A New Luwian Stele and the Cult of the Storm-god at Til Barsib-Masuwari, Peeters Press 2006
  2. Tayfun Bilgin,Tell Ahmar - https://www.hittitemonuments.com/tellahmar/
  3. J. D. Hawkins, Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions, Vol 1, Berlin, 2000, pp. 224-245 and plts 91-102.
  4. W. Orthmann, Untersuchungen zur späthethitischen Kunst, Bonn, 1971.
  5. F. Thureau-Dangin, and M. Dunand. Til-Barsib, Paris, 1936.

Relevant museums

Aleppo, National Museum

Large collection of Bronze Age (a/o Ebla, Mari, Ugarit), Iron Age (Arslan Tash), Hellenistic, and Roman finds.

Paris, Louvre

Paris, Louvre


Nearby

Tel Amhar Stele I (1 km)

Neo Hittite stele of Masuwari .

Til Barsip (1 km)

Modern Tell Ahmar. Hittite Masuwari

Hamiyata Stele, Masuwari - Tell Ahmar-Qubbah (1 km)

Tell Ahmar VI, the Tell Ahmar/Qubbah Neo Hittite stele of Storm God - currently in Aleppo?


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