Stele İslahiye 1
The İslahiye 1 stele is a late Hittite monument from İslahiye in southern Turkey from the 9th century BC. It is exhibited in the Adana Archaeological Museum and has inventory number 2215.
origin
The stele was discovered in 1940 on the summit of Mount Kazdağ near İslahiye in the southern Turkish province of Gaziantep . It had been used in an Islamic cemetery. At the same time, another stele İslahiye 2 was found in the same context .
description
The stele is made of basalt and is 0.70 meters high and 0.50 meters wide. The relief is relatively high and the edges are rounded. Depicted is a seated, beardless male figure facing to the right. She wears a belted robe that reaches to the ankles, her head is clad in a semicircular cap from which a lock of hair hangs down at the back. The left, outstretched hand holds a multi-curved stick, the right is in front of the chest. The proportions of the body parts look very unrealistic, the head is shown exaggeratedly large, forehead and nose form a common profile line. The German Near Eastern archaeologist Winfried Orthmann writes in his investigations into late Hittite art: "The drawing of the outline looks very clumsy, it probably shows a poor quality of the work." The depiction of a seated figure is reminiscent of the numerous dining scenes in late Hittite relief art. Orthmann dates it to the Late Hittite II period and thus to the 9th century BC. Chr.
literature
- Winfried Orthmann: Studies on late Hittite art. (= Saarbrücker Contributions to Antiquity, Vol. 8). Habelt, Bonn 1971, ISBN 978-3-774-91122-2 , pp. 78, 369, 376, 486, plate 14b ( online ).