Pancarlı stele
The stela of Pancarlı , sometimes referred to as Pancarlı 1 , is a late Hittite monument from the area around Sam'al . It is exhibited in the Adana Archaeological Museum and has the inventory number 911.
Find
In 1930 the German archaeologist Hans Henning von der Osten reported on various fragments that he found during a field inspection on the Pancarlı Höyük hill . The hill is less than a kilometer south of Zincirli , where the remains of the late Hittite- Aramaic city-state Sam'al were excavated around 1900 . One of the fragments was the discussed stele, which is now kept in the museum in Adana, the whereabouts of the other finds are unclear. In 2006 a hieroglyphic Luwian inscription fragment was found in the same place as part of a field boundary . No statements can be made about the earlier use of the pieces; an excavation has not yet taken place at Pancarlı Höyük. It is possible that some or all of the fragments were carried here by Zincirli at a later date.
description
The stele is made of basalt and has preserved dimensions of 1.08 meters in height and 1.03 meters in width. The sides and the top are straightened at right angles, the background carefully smoothed. A lower part has broken off. It shows a bearded hero with a conical helmet. He is dressed in a short skirt, which is held by a wide belt with a hanging tassel. His hair hangs down his back in two braids, one of which is rolled up over and one under his raised right arm. He wears a sword on his hip. The right hand, raised backwards, holds a weapon, possibly a kind of club or a battle ax. The left hand holds a captured animal by the tail in front of the body, presumably a lion. The figure is worked out in relatively flat relief, details such as facial features and the rectangular beard are indicated by incised lines. The helmet, forehead and nose form a line, the hips are broad and the shoulders are high. The German Near Eastern archaeologist Winfried Orthmann , who described the work in 1971 in his investigations on late Hittite art , classified it in the Zincirli 1 group according to these criteria and thus dated it to the Late Hittite I / II period, i.e. around the 10th 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. 77, 259, 529, plate 48 ( online ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans Henning von der Osten: Explorations in Hittite Asia Minor 1929 In: Oriental Institute Communications 8 . The University of Chicago Press 1930 pp. 62-63, fig. 63.