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Localisation:

  • Turquie, Gürpınar
  • geo:37.289803,39.028652
  • Précision incertaine

Period or year:

  • -1000~ / unknown

Classification:

  • Objet
  • Visible

Identificateurs:

  • vici:place=41060

Annotations

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Kabahaydar base is a late Hittite doubble bull-shaped basalt base found in Adene/Edene (now Gürpınar)  Village in Kabahaydar district. On the base on both sides  are two bulls with their bodies in relief and their heads as sculptures.At the top, a rectangular  is carved in order to fasten the Storm God statue probably.  The back of the pedestal is flat. Similar "double-bull" bases are known in the neighboring areas, for example in Arslantas and Karkamis.

There was also and a portal bull

See:

  1. Fikri Kulakoğlu: Late-Hittite Sculptures from the Şanlıurfa Region. In: Prince Takahito Mikasa (Hrsg.): Essays on Ancient Anatolia. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1999, pp. 170–174.
  2. https://www.hittitemonuments.com/kabahaydar/index.htm

Kabahaydar base is a late Hittite doubble bull-shaped basalt base found in Adene/Edene (now Gürpınar)  Village in Kabahaydar district. On the base on both sides  are two bulls with their bodies in relief and their heads as sculptures.At the top, a rectangular  is carved in order to fasten the Storm God statue probably.  The back of the pedestal is flat. Similar "double-bull" bases are known in the neighboring areas, for example in Arslantas and Karkamis.

There was also and a portal bull

See:

  1. Fikri Kulakoğlu: Late-Hittite Sculptures from the Şanlıurfa Region. In: Prince Takahito Mikasa (Hrsg.): Essays on Ancient Anatolia. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1999, pp. 170–174.
  2. https://www.hittitemonuments.com/kabahaydar/index.htm

À proximité

Kalecik (1 km)

Roman and Byzantine periods remins.

Edene (Gürpınar) (2 km)

early Bronze Age site.

Göbekli Tepe [Goebekli] (11 km)

Stone quarry