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Location

  • Türkiye, Kahramanmaraş
  • geo:37.55722,36.924911

Period or year

  • -8xx / unknown

Classification

  • altar
  • Visible

Maraş stele from Metropolitan Museum of Art

data access 42227

Fragment of  Neo-Hittite basalt  stele probably from Marash purshed in 1891. The upper part of the relief depicts partialy preserved figure siting a dining table who  holds a musical instrument? in his hand. On the other side of the table is a small male figure with a frond in his one hand and a cup in the other. Beneath is a horse lead by a men with a speare. Orthmann`s Maraş B/15Maraş. Stele is  0,90 m high and  0,44 m wide.

Sources:

  1. http://www.hittitemonuments.com/maras/maras
  2. Dominik Bonatz, Das syro-hethitische Grabdenkmal, t im nordsyrisch‐südostanatolischen Raum,  Philipp von ZabernZabern, Mainz 2000, C
  3. Winfried Orthmann, Untersuchungen zur späthethitischen Kunst, Bonn, 1971.

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2017-05-22) , with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/42227
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Suggested citation: Elżbieta (2018) Maraş stele from Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vici.org: archaeological atlas of antiquity. https://vici.org/vici/42227, accessed 2026-11-15.