Stele of Andaval
The stele of Andaval is a fragment of a late Hittite monument from Aktaş (formerly Andaval) near Niğde in Turkey . It probably dates from the 8th century BC. Chr.
description
The basalt stele fragment was found installed on June 25, 1890 in the Basilica of Constantine in Andaval, about ten kilometers northeast of Niğde. It shows a person probably standing in a recessed field, of whom only the head has been preserved. The hair of the man shown in profile is shown as spirals, the curled head falls down on the neck. The ear and the eye shown in the front are placed on the flat cheek area. Winfried Orthmann assumes that it is the portrayal of the founder.
An inscription in Luwian hieroglyphs is engraved around the sitter's head . She states that the stele was built by a Saruwanis, ruler of Nahitiya. Nahitiya is generally equated with the Hittite Nahita and today's Niğde. Nahitiya was therefore a city that belonged to the Tuwana Kingdom in the Tabal region . He also mentions a Warpalawas , who is believed to be the King of Tuwana in the 8th century BC. Acts. The translation is according to John David Hawkins :
I (am) [S] aru [w] anis the ruler, the lord of the city of Nahitiya.
And I [...]
And when (?) I shall bring [it] out of the plains,
I shall (summer-) pasture the horseherd here,
and (for) me it [...]
[...] and Warpalawa [...] make great [...]
Hawkins assumes that Saruwanis was a predecessor of the Warpalawas and then dates the stele to the early 8th century BC. Chr. Silvia Balatti dates the piece from the 9th to the early 8th century according to palaeographical and iconographical aspects.
The fragment of the stele is now exhibited in the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara, and a copy is in the Niğde Archaeological Museum .
literature
- Silvia Balatti: Some Remarks on the Dating of the Andaval Stela - Palaeographic and iconographic analysis In: Anatolica XXXVIII , 2012 pp. 149–168
- Dietrich Berges , Johannes Nollé : Tyana - Archaeological-historical studies of the southwestern Cappadocia . Habelt, Bonn 2000, ISBN 3-7749-2959-9 , pp. 104-105.
- John David Hawkins : Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions. Vol. I: Inscriptions of the Iron Age. Part 1: Text: Introduction, Karatepe, Karkamiš, Tell Ahmar, Maraş, Malatya, Commagene. (= Studies in Indo-European Language and Culture 8). de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2000, ISBN 3-11-010864-X . Pp. 514-515, No. X.42, plate 291.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Winfried Orthmann: Investigations on late Hittite art. (= Saarbrücker Contributions to Antiquity, Vol. 8) Habelt, Bonn 1971 p. 113 ISBN 978-3-7749-1122-2
- ↑ Trevor Bryce : The Routledge Handbook of The People and Places of Ancient Western Asia: The ... 2009, ISBN 978-1-134-15908-6 , pp. 494 (English, limited preview in Google Book search).
- ^ John David Hawkins, Halet Çambel: Corpus of hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions. 2000, ISBN 3-11-010864-X , pp. 515 (English, limited preview in Google Book search).