Ancoz
Ancoz is the name commonly used in specialist literature for an ancient settlement that was located on the Ataturk reservoir in what is now Turkey. It was near today's village of Eskitaş and is named after the former name of the place.
location
The ancient settlement, whose name is unknown, was in the Kommagene , north of the Euphrates , on the Chabinas (today: Cendere Çayı), opposite the ancient city of Charmodara. At the hill where the Acropolis was located, two rich springs arise. Today the site is below the water level of the Ataturk reservoir, the acropolis hill was spared from the flooding.
meaning
In the Neo-Hittite period (1200–700 BC) Ancoz was a sanctuary with dedicatory inscriptions from the kings Suppiluliuma and his son Hattusili, where the deities Runtiya and Ala -Kubaba were worshiped. Later the Commagenic King Antiochus I Theos (69–36 BC) set up a sanctuary for the cult of the king, as evidenced by several Greek inscriptions found here. This was one of a series of similar sanctuaries owned by the same king, the most important of which was on Nemrut Dağı, which was clearly visible from Ancoz .
The hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions Ancoz 1 (lower part), Ancoz 5 , 7 , 8 , 9 and 10 are in the Adıyaman Archaeological Museum , the upper part of Ancoz 1 in Adana , the whereabouts of the others are unknown.
literature
- J. Wagner & G. Petzl: Relief and inscription fragments of the commagenic ruler cult from Ancoz. ; in: G. Heedemann et al .: New research on the religious history of Asia Minor: Dedicated to Elmar Schwertheim on the occasion of his 60th birthday .
- J. David Hawkins: Gods of Commagene: The cult of the Stag-God in the inscriptions of Ancoz ; in Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum et al .: Diversity and Standardization Akademie Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-05-005756-9 . Pp. 65-80.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ John David Hawkins: Corpus of hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions . Vol 1. Inscriptions of the Iron Age . Part 1: Introduction, Karatepe, Karkamiš, Tell Ahmar, Maraş, Malatya, Commagene. de Gruyter, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-11-010864-X , p. 356