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Til Barsip, Bronze bowl from tomb from Aachaemenid periodTil Barsip, Stele with relief of Teshub, the Hurian god of storm and skyTil Barsip, Stele of goddess Ishtar from the Arbeles shrineTil Barsip, Bronze bowl from tomb from Aachaemenid periodTil Barsip, Painting of 2 Assyrian dignitariesTil Barsip, Stele of goddess Ishtar from the Arbeles shrine, explanationTil Barsip, Relief of the goddess AsheraTil Barsip, Relief king Asarhadon sacrificing a slaveTil Barsip, Stele with Tahunda, god of the thurderstorm, erected by prince HamiyatasTil Barsip, Ivory showing paesants with fruits of the landTil Barsip, Relief king Asarhadon sacrificing a slaveTil Barsip, Vase with humanshaped pouring spoutTil Barsip, Seal with a rosette on top side and a standing human figure, dressed in a long garment, on a flat base, surrounded by 4 Luwian hieroglyphic signsTil Barsip, Palace painting of a goat, explanationTil Barsip, Vase with humanshaped pouring spoutTil Barsip, Stele with relief of Teshub, the Hurian god of storm and skyTil Barsip, Palace painting of a goatTil Barsip, Orthostate with warriorTil Barsip, Stele with relief of Teshub, the Hurian god of storm and skyTil Barsip, Palace painting of a goatTil Barsip, Stele with relief of Teshub, the Hurian god of storm and skyTil Barsip, Palace painting of a protecting genius, element of a frieze in de bathroomTil Barsip, Stele with relief of Teshub, the Hurian god of storm and skyTil Barsip, Palace painting of a protecting genius, element of a frieze in de bathroomTil Barsip, Stele with relief of Teshub, the Hurian god of storm and skyTil Barsip, Palace painting of servants behing the throneTil Barsip, Stele with relief of Teshub, the Hurian god of storm and skyTil Barsip, Palace painting of servants behing the throneTel Amhar Stele ITell Ahmar/Til Barsip

Location:

  • Syrian Arab Republic, Tall Aḩmar
  • geo:36.67355,38.123703
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -8xx / unknown

Class:

  • Relief, votiv stone or altar
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=58099

Annotations

The Stele of the Storm-god and Luwian inscription was discovered in the Euphrates river in 1999 between the modern village of Qubbah and the archaeological site of Tell Ahmar in northern Syria. Currently in National Museum in Aleppo, Syria.Paris.

Sources:

  1. Guy Bunnens,A New Luwian Stele and the Cult of the Storm-god at Til Barsib-Masuwari,  A New Luwian Stele and the Cult of the Storm-god at Til Barsib-Masuwari, Peeters Press 2006

Relevant museums

Aleppo, National Museum

Large collection of Bronze Age (a/o Ebla, Mari, Ugarit), Iron Age (Arslan Tash), Hellenistic, and Roman finds.

Paris, Louvre

Paris, Louvre


Nearby

Til Barsip

Modern Tell Ahmar. Hittite Masuwari

Tel Amhar Stele I

Neo Hittite stele of Masuwari .

Hamiyata Stele, Masuwari - Til Barsip (1 km)

Tell Ahmar II, the Ahmar II Neo Hittite stele of Storm God - currently in Louvre.


This object was added by Elżbieta on 2018-12-14. Last update by Elżbieta on 2018-12-14. Persistent URI: http://vici.org/vici/58099 . Download as RDF/XML, KML.
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