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Location

  • Türkiye, Gözlühüyük
  • geo:37.141197,36.78175

Period or year

  • -7xx / unknown

Classification

  • altar
  • Visible

Gözlühöyük, Storm-God Stele

data access 73398

The stele Storm-God Teshup was found near the village of Gözlühöyük near Nurdağı in the Nur Mountains, about 60 kilometers west of Gaziantep in southern Turkey, and brought to the museum of the provincial capital Gaziantep (prev. Antep). It is late Neo-Hittite stylistically dated to the second half of the 8th century BC relief cut into the basalt block of hight 1.4 m and  of  width 1m.

See:

  1. Guy Bunnens, J. D. Hawkins, Isabelle Leirens: A New Luwian Stele and the Cult of the Storm-god at Til Barsib-Masuwari, Peeters Publishers, 2006,  p. 114.
  2. https://www.hittitemonuments.com/gozluhoyuk/

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2021-11-25) , with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/73398
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Suggested citation: Elżbieta , Gözlühöyük, Storm-God Stele. https://vici.org/vici/73398, accessed 2026-11-09.