Stele Adıyaman 2
The Adıyaman 2 stela is a late Hittite monument from the Adıyaman area in southeastern Turkey . It is exhibited in the Adıyaman Archaeological Museum and has inventory number 492. It was discovered by the German ancient historian Friedrich Karl Dörner and the British Hittiteologist John David Hawkins in the summer of 1969 in the Adıyaman library. More detailed information on the origin and location is not available.
description
The stele is made of limestone and has a height of 0.72 and a width of 0.50 meters. The base is cut in the shape of a peg for insertion into a base. The picture surface is closed at the bottom by a decorated strip. On it is the figure of a god, Hawkins suspects the weather god . He is turned to the right, the legs are in step position. The right arm is raised backwards and holds a curved object; the forearm is missing from the extended left arm. The figure is wearing a short, belted tunicdresses and wears the usual shoes with upturned tips. A helmet with four horns sits on his head. A sword is attached to the hip behind the body. The figure has a rounded beard, a plait falls on its back and can be seen under the right arm. Remains of a winged solar disk can be seen above the god's head.
On the right narrow side of the stele there is a short, four-line inscription in Luwian hieroglyphics in relief. The writing field measures 43 × 18 centimeters. The text begins at the top right and can be read boustrophedon . It consists only of a dedication to the god and a signature. This indicates a Lakawanis as the creator of the stele.
After Dörner and Hawkins found the stele, it was first published by the latter in 1970, and in 1975 the Italian classical philologist Piero Meriggi published a review. In his research on late Hittite art , the stele was treated by the German archaeologist Winfried Orthmann . From a stylistic point of view, this dates them to the Late Hittite II period , thus around the 9th century BC. Chr.
literature
- John David Hawkins : Hieroglyphic Hittite Inscriptions of Commagene In: Anatolian Studies 20, 1970 pp. 105-108 Plate XVIII.
- Winfried Orthmann : Studies on late Hittite art. (= Saarbrücker contributions to antiquity, vol. 8) Habelt, Bonn 1971, ISBN 978-3774911222 , pp. 101-102, 233, 475 plate 67 g.
- 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 , pp. 351–352, plates 177–178.