THE SCULPTURES OF ALACAHÖYÜK: A Key to Religious Symbolism in Hittite Representational Art

This article presents a new interpretation of the monumental sculptured friezes of the Sphinx Gate of Alacahöyük in northern Anatolia, an important site of the Hittite Empire. Historical and cultural arguments support a date in the second half of the thirteenth century b.c.e. for the Sphinx Gate. On...

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Main Author: Taracha, Piotr (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: University of Chicago Press 2012
In: Near Eastern archaeology
Year: 2012, Volume: 75, Issue: 2, Pages: 108-115
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