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Lion of MaraşMaraş stele from Metropolitan Museum of ArtStele Maraş XIIMaraş Stele, Stela of woman with a spindle.Statue of Asatiwasus, Maraş, ca 800 BCStatue of Halparuntiya IIStele of Laramas IStele of Laramas I - Maraş VIIIMaraş Stela, Berlin reliefFunerary Stele of Tarhupiya.Germanicia Ancient City MoozasicMaraş Merchant`s SteleMaraş Stele, Mağralı ReliefFunerary stele of a wine merchant and wifeMARAŞ 16Late Hittite stele. Maras XVII

Location:

  • Türkiye, Kahramanmaraş
  • geo:37.557426,36.925728
  • Location uncertain

Period or year:

  • -700~ / unknown

Class:

  • Relief, votiv stone or altar
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=42183

Annotations

The surface of Maraş B / 5 Neo-Hittite stele of Storm God  is heavily eroded. Nonetheless the figure holding a trident shaped thunderbolt in his left hand an axe in his right hand is visible. Provenance is unknown.

See:

  1. 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. 251, diff.
  2. https://www.hittitemonuments.com/maras/maras45.htm
  3. Winfried Orthmann: Untersuchungen zur späthethitischen Kunst. (= Saarbrücker Beiträge zur Altertumskunde Bd. 8) Habelt, Bonn 1971, Maras B/5.

Nearby

Lion of Maraş

Lion of Kahramanmaraş,Istanbul Archaeological Museum till 2013.

Maraş stele from Metropolitan Museum of Art

Neo-Hittite relief. Dining scene; and man with horse.

Stele Maraş XII

Kahramanmaras Museum.


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