Stele from Söğütlü
The Söğütlü stele is a late Hittite monument from Söğütlü in southern Turkey from the 9th century BC. It is exhibited in the Adana Archaeological Museum and has the inventory number 1983.
origin
The stele was found near the village of Söğütlü in the Pazarcık district of the southern Turkish province of Kahramanmaraş . The time of the find and the precise circumstances of the find are not known. It was first published by Helmuth Theodor Bossert in 1942 in his volume on Old Anatolia . Further descriptions were given in 1971 by Winfried Orthmann , in 1989 by Joachim Voos and in 2000 by Dominik Bonatz .
description
The monument is made of basalt , it has a preserved height of 1.19 meters, a width of 0.56 meters and a depth of 0.32 meters. The upper third is lost. A standing man facing to the left is depicted in low relief. He wears sandals and an upper garment that reaches down to the ankles and is belted at the hips with a border on the lower hem. Above this, a sword hanger can be seen with tassels hanging from the pommel and scabbard . In his left hand he is holding a bow hanging over his shoulder. The right arm is raised, the left upper edge of the fracture can still be seen remains of objects that he is holding in his hand. Bonatz recognizes feathered arrow shafts in it. Below the feet is a running animal, presumably a horse or donkey, with a load on its back. Another four-legged friend, possibly a dog, can be found behind the figure's back. There is a small table in front of the man at about stomach height, on which are several flatbreads and donut-shaped pastries.
The table and the animals float on the overall picture without reference to the line of the figure. According to Bonatz, this places the figure in a scenic context that makes it appear less static. Orthmann considers the relief to be a work of inferior quality, probably based on the model of the Maraş steles . He assigns the work to the Maraş II group and dates it to the Late Hittite III period . Bonatz assumes that it was made between 875 and 800 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. 90, 370, 533, plate 52b ( online ).
- Dominik Bonatz : The Syro-Hittite grave monument - investigations into the emergence of a new pictorial genre in the Iron Age in the north Syrian-southeastern Anatolian region. Von Zabern, Mainz 2000, ISBN 3-8053-2603-3 , p.17., 33
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Helmuth Theodor Bossert: Old Anatolia. Arts and crafts in Asia Minor. From the beginning to the complete absorption in the Greek culture (= the oldest cultures of the Mediterranean area. 2, ZDB -ID 1066093-8 ). Wasmuth, Berlin 1942 Fig. 813.
- ^ Joachim Voos: Studies on the Syro-Hittite cult of the dead. On the role of statues and reliefs in the cult of the dead of the principalities of northern Syria and southeastern Anatolia during the early Iron Age , unpublished. Dissertation, submitted in 1986 at the Central Institute for Ancient History and Archeology of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in Berlin. Cat.-No. 74