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Les environs:

Statue of Asatiwasus, Maraş, ca 800 BCStatue of Halparuntiya IIMaraş stele from Metropolitan Museum of ArtLion of MaraşStele Maraş XIIMaraş stele. Neo-Hittite releif of Storm God.Maraş Stele, Stela of woman with a spindle.Maraş Stela, Berlin reliefFunerary Stele of Tarhupiya.Maraş Merchant`s SteleGermanicia Ancient City MoozasicMaraş Stele, Mağralı ReliefFunerary stele of a wine merchant and wifeMARAŞ 16Late Hittite stele. Maras XVII

Localisation:

  • Turquie, Kahramanmaraş
  • geo:37.557404,36.923237
  • Précision incertaine

Period or year:

  • -950~ / unknown

Classification:

  • Autel ou sculpture
  • Visible

Identificateurs:

  • vici:place=42180

Annotations

Il n'y a pas une annotation en français. Présenté est une annotation en Anglais.

This basalt Stele of Laramas I was first mentioned by Otto Puchstein in 1882 in a modern day cementary in Maraş. Later stele was in the possession of Rev. Henry Marden of the American mission in Maraş, who handed the stele  to  the NY Metropolitan Museum over. Stele is ca 1.10 m heigh and 0.56 m wide. The relief depicts the ruler of Late Hittite kingdom of Gurgum i Larama I c. 950 BC, son of Muwatalli I ,and  the grandson of Astuwaramanza . The text in  the 7-line hieroglyphic  Luwian inscription covering entire surface of the stele revords the king`s activities of  rebuilding the vcity of Gurgum. Stele is approximately dated to the 10th century BC. W. Orthmann`s B/16.

See:

  1. Trevor Bryce: The World of the Neo-Hittite Kingdoms; A Political and Military History. Oxford, New York 2012, p. 305.
  2. John David Hawkins: Corpus of hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions. Vol 1. Inscriptions of the Iron Age. Part 1: Text: Introduction, Karatepe, Karkamiš, Tell Ahmar, Maraş, Malatya, Commagene. de Gruyter, Berlin 2000, pp. 252 ff, pls. 106-107
  3. Winfried Orthmann: Untersuchungen zur späthethitischen Kunst. (= Saarbrücker Beiträge zur Altertumskunde Bd. 8) Habelt, Bonn 1971

This basalt Stele of Laramas I was first mentioned by Otto Puchstein in 1882 in a modern day cementary in Maraş. Later stele was in the possession of Rev. Henry Marden of the American mission in Maraş, who handed the stele  to  the NY Metropolitan Museum over. Stele is ca 1.10 m heigh and 0.56 m wide. The relief depicts the ruler of Late Hittite kingdom of Gurgum i Larama I c. 950 BC, son of Muwatalli I ,and  the grandson of Astuwaramanza . The text in  the 7-line hieroglyphic  Luwian inscription covering entire surface of the stele revords the king`s activities of  rebuilding the vcity of Gurgum. Stele is approximately dated to the 10th century BC. W. Orthmann`s B/16.

See:

  1. Trevor Bryce: The World of the Neo-Hittite Kingdoms; A Political and Military History. Oxford, New York 2012, p. 305.
  2. John David Hawkins: Corpus of hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions. Vol 1. Inscriptions of the Iron Age. Part 1: Text: Introduction, Karatepe, Karkamiš, Tell Ahmar, Maraş, Malatya, Commagene. de Gruyter, Berlin 2000, pp. 252 ff, pls. 106-107
  3. Winfried Orthmann: Untersuchungen zur späthethitischen Kunst. (= Saarbrücker Beiträge zur Altertumskunde Bd. 8) Habelt, Bonn 1971

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Maraş VI (Hermitage Museum)

Fragment of the Hittitr inscription.

Statue of Halparunda II

Kahramanmaraş. Statue of Halparunda II. IX century BC.