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Location

  • Türkiye, Kahramanmaraş
  • geo:37.600365,36.919994

Period or year

  • -875~ / -800~

Classification

  • graves
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Maraş Stela, Adana Couple

data access 42189

Late Hitite funerary stele of a wine merchant and his wife dates to the late IX century, early VIII century BC. Orhmann`s Maraş A/1. Stele is about 1 meter heigh and 56 cm wide. The Adana Couple plastically depicts two figures putting their arms on each other's shoulders. The left is a male figure of merchant, with beard, and a bunch of grapes  in his left hand. The right female figure holds in her hand a mirror. Adana couple stele was uncovered in Yürükselim. Currenty is in Adana, Museum Inv. 1755.

See:

  1. https://www.hittitemonuments.com/maras/maras03.htm
  2. Winfried Orthmann: Untersuchungen zur späthethitischen Kunst. (= Saarbrücker Beiträge zur Altertumskunde Bd. 8) Habelt, Bonn 1971,

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2017-05-20) , with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/42189
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Suggested citation: Elżbieta (2018) Maraş Stela, Adana Couple. Vici.org: archaeological atlas of antiquity. https://vici.org/vici/42189, accessed 2026-11-15.