Stele İslahiye 2
The İslahiye 2 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 2214.
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 1 was found in the same context .
description
The stele, rounded at the top, is made of basalt and is 0.70 meters high and 1.40 meters wide. The relief is relatively high and the edges are rounded. Modeling can be seen on the limbs and in the facial area; if there is an overlap (sword and braid), the relief height is graduated. A male figure is shown walking to the right. The relief has damage on the left side, as a result of which the man's right arm is missing, and it has broken through at the level of the thighs. The figure is dressed as a warrior with a short, belted skirt, shoes with curved tips and a tall, conical helmet. This is adorned with two pairs of horns, which identifies the figure as a god. A pigtail hangs down under the helmet, rolled up at hip level. Except for a short, rectangular beard and ear, few details of the face can be seen. The raised left hand holds a stick-shaped object upwards, perhaps an ear of wheat, the right hand has not survived. He carries a sword hanging almost horizontally on his hip. Because of the missing or invisible attributes of battle ax and lightning bolt , identification as a weather god is uncertain. On the other hand, images of the weather god Tarhunza as a source of vegetation with an ear in hand are known (see İvriz rock relief ). The helmet, forehead and nose form a line, the proportions seem a little shifted, the representation clumsy. 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 German archaeologist Birgül Ögüt suspects that it is a copy of someone else Act. Orthmann dates the stele 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, 234, 486, plate 14c ( online ).
- Guy Bunnens, JD Hawkins , Isabelle Leirens: A New Luwian Stele and the Cult of the Storm-god at Til Barsib-Masuwari. Peeters Publishers, Löwen 2006, ISBN 978-9-042-91817-7 , p. 131.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Birgül Ögüt: Eine Sturmgott -Stele from Aydınkaya / Gaziantep In: Heather Baker, Kai Kaniuth, Adelheid Otto (ed.): Stories of long ago. Festschrift for Michael D. Roaf . Ugarit-Verlag, Münster 2012, p. 433 ( online ).