Hanyeri rock relief

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Hanyeri rock relief

The rock relief of Hanyeri (also rock relief of Gezbeli) in central Turkey is located near the village of Hanyeri on the road from Tufanbeyli to Develi , in the Tufanbeyli district of the Adana province , about 80 kilometers southeast of Kayseri . In Hittite times, the road ran over the 1960  m high Gezbeli pass, which represented the year-round passage over the Taurus ridge from the Hittite heartland in the Halysbogen to Cilicia . At the other, northwestern end of the pass is the rock relief of Imamkullu .

The relief was discovered in 1939 by Ali Rıza Yalgın, the director of the Adana Museum at the time , and dates back to the 13th century BC. BC, the time of the Hittite empire. It is about four meters above the road and is 2 by 3.5 meters in size. On the left is a bull standing on the shoulders of two mountain gods or, according to Kohlmeyer, on an altar and a mountain god. The bull is referred to as the god Sarruma in the descriptive hieroglyphs . In the center stands a warrior walking to the left, armed with a bow slung over his shoulder and a spear in his right hand. He is dressed in a short tunic and pointed shoes. He is identified by an inscription as the son of a king , the name may be Ku (wa) lanamuwa . The same name appears on the rock relief of Manisa and that of İmamkullu, but it is not clear whether they are the same person. This inscription in Luwian hieroglyphics is to the left of the prince's head. Another inscription, unusually behind the back of the king's son and doubled in mirror image, is probably not related to the depiction. JD Hawkins reads the name Tarḫuntabijammi in it , there is a possibility that it was added later. In the Hemite rock relief , a prince Tarḫuntabija is mentioned, whom Hawkins sees in a possible connection with Tarḫuntabijammi.

The relief is currently (2013) in poor condition and barely recognizable.

Coordinates: 38 ° 12 ′ 48.3 "  N , 36 ° 0 ′ 53.8"  E

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literature

  • Kay Kohlmeyer : Rock paintings from the Hittite Empire. In: Acta Praehistorica et Archaeologica , Vol. 15 (1983) ISBN 3-88435-080-3 , pp. 86-90
  • Eberhard P. Rossner: Rock monuments in Turkey. Volume 1: The Hittite rock reliefs in Turkey. An archaeological guide. 2nd, expanded edition. Rossner, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-924390-02-9 , pp. 180-185.
  • Horst Ehringhaus : gods, rulers, inscriptions. The rock reliefs of the Hittite Empire in Turkey. Zabern, Mainz 2005, ISBN 3-8053-3469-9 , pp. 75-80.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Horst Ehringhaus: Gods, rulers, inscriptions. 2005, p. 80.
  2. ↑ Manfred Weippert: Yahweh and the other gods. Studies on the religious history of ancient Israel in its Syrian-Palestinian context (= research on the Old Testament. Vol. 18). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1997, ISBN 3-16-146592-X , p. 49.
  3. ↑ http://hayatmumu.blogspot.de/

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