(updated 2021) Pictures & images of Hittite art, Hittite sculptured relief orthostat panels, Hittite statues, Hittite pottery & ceramics. The webs biggest and most comprehensive on line pictures & images of monumental Hittite art and Hittite artefacts from 1700 to 700 BC. It was only 120 years or so ago that what was though to be the mythical Biblical Hittites were discovered to not only have actually existed but were one of the 3 great powers of the ancient world who competed and fought with Egypt and Assyria for supremacy. The Hittite Empire dates from around 1600 to 1200 BC and thanks to the Hittites highly bureaucratic state that wrote everything down on clay tablets, discovered in the early 1900s in the ruins of their ancient capital Hattusa, scholars have slowly been able to piece together their history. Around 1180 BC, during the Bronze Age collapse, the Hittites splintered into several independent "Neo-Hittite" city-states, some of which survived until the 8th century BC before succumbing to the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Most of the Hittite art that survives today is from the Neo Hittite period in the form of Bas relief sculpted stone slabs that adorned the walls of Hittite buildings. Hittite monumental art shows that the Hittites had a fertile creative imagination with a vast pantheon of Gods. Hittite art focused primarily on its Gods and in the process created endearing artworks that depicted the Hittite pantheon of gods. The Hittites believed the world was populated by thousands of gods. Every mountain, animal, tree and insect had its own god. Gods were thought to be like humans but bigger. Gods had human emotions and needs and were not seen to be invincible spirits that were faultless. Like humans the Hittite gods were believed to like dancing, music, athletic contests, making love and good food. Hittite sculptors had to solve the problem of clearly depicting a huge pantheon of Gods in Hittite art. Each God had a written set of attributes and a hierarchical standing in the pantheon lists. When the Gods appear together in groups each God has to be portrayed at a scale that reflects its status. At Yazilikaya what appears to us to be a series of processions moving across the rock faces towards the heart of the temple, are in fact a series of static Gods, unrelated to each other, each depicted in its correct place in the pantheon. READ THE HISTORY OF THE HITTITES AT : https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/p/hittites-history Add photos of Hittite Antiquities using ADD TO CART button as royalty free download or prints or download from our ALAMY STOCK LIBRARY page at https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/paul-williams-funkystock/hittite-art-antiquities.html Use the LOWER SEARCH WITHIN GALLERY box to refine search by adding background colour, etc VISIT OUR HITTITE SITE AT: https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/The-Hittites-Art-Artefacts-Antiquities-Historic-Sites-Pictures-Images-of/C0000NUBSMhSc3Oo

Pictures photos images of Hittite pottery artefacts & Hittite terra cotta antiquities from 16th - 9th century BC . The creativity of monumental Hittite relief panels would lead us to imagine that Hittite ceramics would be equally exciting. Most Hittite pottery is undecorated “drab wear”. Hittite pottery is largely a continuation of a tradition started in Anatolia in the 3rd millennium BC which continued until the end of the Empire period. The Neo-Hittite states produced increasingly poor pottery. In the 16th century the Old Hittites produced spectacular polychrome relief-decorated vases. The few Hittite relief vases that have been found are large, four-handled jars with a libation mechanism in the inner rim. The most complete and famous example is the Inandik Hittite relief decorated cult libation vase with four decorative friezes featuring figures coloured in cream, red and black. The processional figures include musicians and acrobats processing to a sacrificial altar. At around 86 cm high and 50 cm across these Hittite relief vases are impressive pieces of ceramic. The high points of Hittite ceramics are though examples of fine craftsmanship. Beak-spouted jugs are often regarded as the Hittite vessel type par excellence. Most of these pieces date to the Assyrian Traders Karum and early Old Hittite period. The spout of the Hittite beak spouted pitcher steeply rises out of the slender neck and terminates in a pronounced beak. Especially the older beak spout jugs often show two wedge like applications on the front. It is likely that these represent a woman’s breasts and that the Hittites perceived the vessels as anthropomorphic and female in gender. Although Hittite beak-spouted jugs sharply decrease in frequency during the Empire period, they do not disappear completely. A rather special Hittite vessel type is the lentoid flask or ‘pilgrim flask’. These flasks always show a narrow neck and handles attached to the shoulder. Their complex manufacture required a high degree of sophistication on the potter’s side. Their surface is always sealed by a highly burnished slip that may be of red or white colour. The reason for this is that they served as containers for fluid or semi-fluid contents. Similar in shape to the “pilgrims flask” is the Hittite water bottle which was carried on the back using ties to the bottle. READ THE HISTORY OF THE HITTITES AT : https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/p/hittites-history VISIT OUR HITTITE SITE AT: https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/The-Hittites-Art-Artefacts-Antiquities-Historic-Sites-Pictures-Images-of/C0000NUBSMhSc3Oo Add photos of Hittite Pottery Antiquities using ADD TO CART button as royalty free download or prints or download from our ALAMY STOCK LIBRARY page at https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/paul-williams-funkystock/hittite-art-antiquities.html Type - Pottery - into the LOWER SEARCH WITHIN GALLERY box to refine search by adding background colour, etc

Pictures photos images of Anatolian & Hittite hieroglyph panels and stele as well as cuneiform clay tablets. Hieroglyph is the generic name of the writing system using picture symbols which was invented in Egypt and affected Aegean and Anatolia. Hittite used two writing systems. These are the diplomatic cuneiform writing taken from Mesopotamia , and the pictorial writing known as Luwian hieroglyph. The ancient civilisations of Babylon, Assyria, Egypt and the Hittites used a common cuneiform to send letter to each other. Thousands of Hittite cuneiform tablets have been excavated from Hattusa dealing with all aspects of Hittite life from simple transactions to treaties with other Empires. During the early Hittite Empire period hieroglyphs were used in monumental rock reliefs and orthostats. After the collapse of the Hittite Empire and the creation of independent Hittite principalities, the writing used by these Late or Neo Hittite Kingdoms were hieroglyphs and cuneiform was dropped. The Neo Hittite Kingdoms were established in Southern Anatolia and Northern Syria after the fall of the Hittite Empire in 1200 B.C. The inscriptions accompanying reliefs carved on the rocks, the inscriptions on stone stelae, the legends on the seals of kings and persons, the inscriptions on some metal containers, on certain weapons such as spearhead, and partly short inscriptions on the pottery; all of these are written in hieroglyphic system. Luwian Hieroglyph continued until the invasion of Assyria. Thus, it can be assumed that Luwian language lived in ancient Anatolia for about 1500 years. READ THE HISTORY OF THE HITTITES AT : https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/p/hittites-history VISIT OUR HITTITE SITE AT: https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/The-Hittites-Art-Artefacts-Antiquities-Historic-Sites-Pictures-Images-of/C0000NUBSMhSc3Oo Add photos of Hittite Cuneiform and Hieroglyphics Antiquities using ADD TO CART button as royalty free download or prints or download from our ALAMY STOCK LIBRARY page at https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/paul-williams-funkystock/hittite-art-antiquities.html Type - Cuneiform OR Hieroglyphic - into the LOWER SEARCH WITHIN GALLERY box to refine search by adding background colour, etc

Pictures photos images of Alaca Hoyuk (Alacahoyuk) Neo Hittite sculpted relief stone orthostat panels, Hittite sculpture and museum artefacts from the archaeological site near Alaca, Turkey. From the 14th century BC Alaca Huyuk was under Hittite rule. Alaca Huyuk was excavated by German archaeologists in 1910 who revealed the Sphinx Gates to the ancient city. Due to the intervention of the First World War, the excavations stopped and were resumed by Hamit Kosay in 1935 and continued until 1970. The ancient Hittite of Alaca Hoyuk and earlier antiquities are housed in the Museum of the Anatolian Civilisations in Ankara. The most complete structure left in Alaca Hoyuk is the Sphinx Gate with its entrance flanked by 2 Hittite Sphinx statues and its outer and inner walls clad with monumental Hittite relief art orthostats. The exterior wall to the left of the gate entrance has a monumental Hittite relief orthostat group that form a continuous scene. These Hittite orthostats depict a sacrifice by the king and queen, followed by attendants, to a divinity—the storm-god—in the form of a bull. The king wears 'priestly garb ' and carries the lituus, He is standing in front of the altar in an attitude of adoration, hand raised towards the image of the god, the normal attitude of prayer. In another Hittite orthostat an attendant leading in the animals—rams and goats—for the sacrifice. A further reliefs depicts jugglers and another with a hunting scenes show art unexpected liberty of movement and an understanding of animal life, already noticeable in the statuettes of stags and bulls. The large archaeological site at Alaca Hoyuk has bronze age necropolis where burial chambers that were of nobles or maybe Royals where many precious finds were found. The archaeological site at Alaca Hoyuk also has its won museum where Hittites and earlier excavated artefacts are housed. This gallery of pictures shows Hittite relief sculpted orthostats depict a King & Queen before an altar from Alacahöyük , Sacrificial animals being led from Alacahöyük and Conjurer & acrobats. READ THE HISTORY OF THE HITTITES AT : https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/p/hittites-history Visit our HITTITE PHOTO COLLECTIONS for more photos to download or buy as wall art prints https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/The-Hittites-Art-Artefacts-Antiquities-Historic-Sites-Pictures-Images-of/C0000NUBSMhSc3Oo Add photos of Alaca Hoyuk Hittite Antiquities using ADD TO CART button as royalty free download or prints or download from our ALAMY STOCK LIBRARY page at https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/paul-williams-funkystock/hittite-art-antiquities.html Type - Alaca Hoyuk - into the LOWER SEARCH WITHIN GALLERY box to refine search by adding background colour, etc VISIT OUR HITTITE SITE AT: https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/The-Hittites-Art-Artefacts-Antiquities-Historic-Sites-Pictures-Images-of/C0000NUBSMhSc3Oo

Pictures photos images of Aslantepe or Arslantepe monumental Hittite relief orthostats, Hittite statues and Hittite artefacts from Aslantepe archaeological site. Aslantepe or Arslantepe was an ancient city near present day Malatya. Aslantepe has been occupied since the development of the agricultural habitations of the fertile crescent 6000 years ago. It was conquered by the Hittites in the 14th century BC who ruled it until the collapse of the Hittite Empire in the Bronze Age Collapse. Aslantepe then re-emerged as Kammanu, a Neo-Hittite town. Aslantepe is situated west of Euphrates River, at 7 km north east of the modern city of Malatya, which was founded in 1838: Inhabited from 5000 BC until 11th Century A.C, Aslantepe is known as the city of "Melidia-Meliddu" in written Hittite sources. The first excavations were carried out in 1930 by L. Delaporte, the French archaeologist. During the excavations; two lion statues on both sides of the entrance gate and courtyard, which were decorated with low-relief on the stone, the statue of the buried King Mutallu across it, and the Late Hittite Palace were found. The surviving Hittite orthostats in this Hittite picture gallery are from this period. Typical of Hittite art relief sculptures depict colourful gods from the vast pantheon of Gods that the Hittites worshipped. Gods that are mixtures of animals such as the Hittite relief sculpture of Lion Men show the fertile creative imagination of Hittite artists. As well as a sculpture of A Winged God, the orthostats of Aslantepe depict scenes with Hittite Gods. The gallery also contains a splendid sculpture of a Lion from the Gate to Aslantepe which has all the hall marks of the endearing style of Hittite artist READ THE HISTORY OF THE HITTITES AT : https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/p/hittites-history VISIT OUR HITTITE SITE AT: https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/The-Hittites-Art-Artefacts-Antiquities-Historic-Sites-Pictures-Images-of/C0000NUBSMhSc3Oo Add photos of Aslantepe Hittite Antiquities using ADD TO CART button as royalty free download or prints or download from our ALAMY STOCK LIBRARY page at https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/paul-williams-funkystock/hittite-art-antiquities.html Type - Aslantepe - into the LOWER SEARCH WITHIN GALLERY box to refine search by adding background colour, etc

Pictures photos images of the Neo Hittite sculpted relief stone orthostat panels, Hittite sculpture & Hittite artefacts of Karkamis (Karkamış, Carchemish, Karkemish) archeological site, Turkey. Ancient Karkamis was an ancient settlement and capital that had been occupied since Neolithic times. Karkamis became an important city in the Hittite Empire being located as a major trading centre. Between 1206 and 1150 BC the Hittite Empire collapsed during invasions of the “Sea People” which led to the Bronze Age Collapse. Carchemish survived these attacks contrary to the proclamations of Rameses III and replaced Hattusa as the Neo-Hittite capital. After George Smith (1876) had found that the ruins of Karkamis , Hogarth, Lawrence, Campbell-Thompson and Woolley made excavation works between the years of 1878-1920 on behalf of the British Museum. Carchemish archeological site consists of three sections as Outer City, Inner City and the Citadel (the inner castle), the City has a rectangular structures. The structures are decorated with black basalt and white limestone orthostats covered with the reliefs Hittite-Assyrian style. The archeological site has Neo Hittite sculpted relief stone orthostat panels groups of Carchemish are known as The Water Gate group, The Royal Buttress Group, The Herald’s Wall Group and The Long Wall Group. The Hittite sculpted orthostats of the Long Wall of Karkamis archeological site contain gods, chariots, and armed warriors wearing a crested helmet. The "embossed long wall" orthostats located towards the great ladder, have a rounded style typical of the late Neo Hittite Syrian art. The Hittite relief orthostat panels of the Royal Buttress of Carchemish archeological site are some of the best examples of the late Assyrian Neo Hittite artistic style. The rounded contours in the head, face and arms are distinctive in the Hittite relief panels of these groups. Face and neck lines are treated significantly. The surfaces of these relief orthostats display a round shaping, with a noticeable puff of the organs, and the details on the wings of the griffin have been shaped with deep lines. The common feature of these two groups is that people, gods, heroes, and human-bodied mixed creatures wear the same type of clothes. READ THE HISTORY OF THE HITTITES AT : https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/p/hittites-history VISIT OUR HITTITE SITE AT: https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/The-Hittites-Art-Artefacts-Antiquities-Historic-Sites-Pictures-Images-of/C0000NUBSMhSc3Oo Add photos of Tell Halaf Hittite Antiquities using ADD TO CART button as royalty free download or prints or download from our ALAMY STOCK LIBRARY page at https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/paul-williams-funkystock/hittite-art-antiquities.html Type - Karkamis - into the LOWER SEARCH WITHIN GALLERY box to refine search by adding background colour, etc

Pictures photos images of the Coba Hoyuk’s (Coba Höyük) Hittite monumental relief orthostat panels & Hittite sculpture statues, Coba Hoyuk, Turkey. Coba Hoyuk (Coba Höyük or Sakçe Gözü or Sakçagözü) is an archaeological site in south west Anatolia, present day Turkey. Coba Hoyuk has been occupied since Neolithic times and became part of the Neo-Hittite state around 1000BC. The site was fist found by Karl Humann and Felix von Luschan in 1883 and the Hittite artefacts found can be seen as excavated at Sakçagözü in the Vorderasiatisches Museum, part of the Pergamon Museum Berlin. These Hittite relief sculptures from Coba Hoyuk depict Warriors fighting with the lion from a chariot and on foot. The warriors in the chariot have armour as does the horse The archer, probably the ruler, is under the protection of the gods, indicated by the winged sun above his head. The Hittite orthostats are sculpted in Basalt and date from about 750 BC. READ THE HISTORY OF THE HITTITES AT : https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/p/hittites-history VISIT OUR HITTITE SITE AT: https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/The-Hittites-Art-Artefacts-Antiquities-Historic-Sites-Pictures-Images-of/C0000NUBSMhSc3Oo Add photos of Coba Hoyuk Hittite Antiquities using ADD TO CART button as royalty free download or prints or download from our ALAMY STOCK LIBRARY page at https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/paul-williams-funkystock/hittite-art-antiquities.html Type - Coba Hoyuk - into the LOWER SEARCH WITHIN GALLERY box to refine search by adding background colour, etc

Pictures photos images of the Sam’al's Hittite monumental relief orthostat panels & Hittite sculpture statues, Sam'al (Zincirli Höyük), Gazientep, Turkey. The site of Sam'al was occupied in the Early Bronze Age, and is thought to be part of the kingdom of Yamhad. Sam'al became a middle power at the end of the 10th century BCE. It had expanded from being a city state and gained territories from Carchemish. The site was excavated between 1888 and 1902 by expeditions led by Felix von Luschan and Robert Koldewey, supported by the German Orient Committee. The Sam'al Royal steles and stone tablets excavated from the period, of Kilamuva and Panamuva II, are the main sources for historical data. The 9th century BC Kilamuwa Stela of King Kilamuwa, from the Kingdom of Sam'al. The stele is a 16-line text in Phoenician. King Kilamuwa is shown standing on the upper left and addressing four Canaanite god-insignias with his right arm and finger. His left hand is draped at his left side holding a wilted lotus flower, a symbol of a king's death. He is dressed in king's regalia with hat, and his figure stands at the beginning of the first nine lines of the text. Many Hittite statues were excavated from Sam’al including several Hittite lion statues, a Colossal Statue of the Weather God Hadad & Sphinx. Download Pictures & images of the Hittite monumental relief orthostat panels & Hittite sculpture statues from Sam’al or buy as photo art prints on line. READ THE HISTORY OF THE HITTITES AT : https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/p/hittites-history VISIT OUR HITTITE SITE AT: https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/The-Hittites-Art-Artefacts-Antiquities-Historic-Sites-Pictures-Images-of/C0000NUBSMhSc3Oo Add photos of Sam’al' Hittite Antiquities using ADD TO CART button as royalty free download or prints or download from our ALAMY STOCK LIBRARY page at https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/paul-williams-funkystock/hittite-art-antiquities.html Type - Samal - into the LOWER SEARCH WITHIN GALLERY box to refine search by adding background colour, etc

Pictures images and photos of Tell Halaf, Guzana or Gozan, was an ancient city located in present day northeastern Syria. Tell Halaf became a Neo-Hittite city state in the 9th century BC. In 1899 Tell Halaf was descovered by Max Von Oppenhein, a German that was surveying a route for the Bagdad railway. Oppenheim had a test pit dug and descovered the Western Palace and some statues. Because he did not have a permit to excavate he covered up the remains, quit his job and applied for a permit to excavate the site. The resulting excavation found significant finds of large statues, a place and tombs and Hellenistic remains. Today the Hittite artefact antiqueries arev housed in the Pergamon Muesum, Berlin. This picture gallery of the Hittite artefacts and antiquities from Tell Halaf reilf sculpture orthostats of Hittite Gods and deities from the Western Palace. The quality of the sculptured panels is remarkable and the creative genius of Hittite artists is shown to full effect. READ THE HISTORY OF THE HITTITES AT : https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/p/hittites-history VISIT OUR HITTITE SITE AT: https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/The-Hittites-Art-Artefacts-Antiquities-Historic-Sites-Pictures-Images-of/C0000NUBSMhSc3Oo Add photos of Tell Halaf Hittite Antiquities using ADD TO CART button as royalty free download or prints or download from our ALAMY STOCK LIBRARY page at https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/paul-williams-funkystock/hittite-art-antiquities.html Type - Tell Halaf - into the LOWER SEARCH WITHIN GALLERY box to refine search by adding background colour, etc

Pictures Images photos of Alaca Hoyuk (Alacahoyuk, Alacahöyük or Alaca Höyük ) Hittite archaeological site Alaca, Çorum Province, Turkey, Photos by photographer Paul E Williams. Alaca Hoyuk (also known as Alacahoyuk, Alacahüyük, Aladja-Hoyuk, Euyuk, or Evuk) is one of the important Hittite archaeological sites. Dating from Neolithic times Alaca Hoyuk has fine Bronze Age Royal tombs as well as Hittite archaeology. The best preserved Hittite remains are around the monumental Sphinx Gate. The Sphinx Gate at Alaca Hoyuk is the only Hittite Imperial Period gate structure whose entrance is flanked by orthostat reliefs within the Hittite heartland. The Sphinx Gate is 10-meter wide and its exterior walls are clad with Hittite relief sculpted orthostat panels. The two towered gate entrance is adorned with two-meter tall sphinx statues. On the left tower, a bull standing on a platform symbolises the Storm God. On the next block, a king and a queen proceed with praying gestures before an altar. The following three blocks depict sacrificial animals being led before bearers of cult objects followed by jugglers performing on a ladder with daggers. On the interior face of the corner orthostat of the left tower, a ritual scene displays four persons holding symbolic staves. Similarly, a religious ceremony is depicted on the orthostats of the right tower. Officials proceed with praying gestures towards a goddess seared on a throne at the head of the frieze. This goddess is interpreted as the Sun goddess of the city of Arinna, wife of the Storm God. All these depictions represent an entire ritual set of cult, libation, hunting, and entertainment that comprise a religious ceremony in honour of the Storm God. READ THE HISTORY OF THE HITTITES AT : https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/p/hittites-history Visit our TURKEY PHOTO COLLECTIONS for more photos to download or buy as wall art prints https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/3f-Pictures-of-Turkey-Turkey-Photos-Images-Fotos/C0000U.hJWkZxAbg Add photos of Alaca Hoyuk Hittite Site using ADD TO CART button as royalty free download or prints or download from our ALAMY STOCK LIBRARY page at : https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/paul-williams-funkystock/alaca-hoyuk-hittite-site.html

Pictures images photos of Eflatun Pınar ( Eflatunpınar) Ancient Hittite relief sculpture monument and sacred pool. Photos by photographer Paul E Williams. Between 15th to 13th centuries BC. Lake Beysehir National Park, Konya, Turkey. Eflatun Pınar ( Eflatunpınar) translates as Plato's Spring and is historical monument of the Hittite Empire built at the edges of a pool fed by a spring in the Lake Beysehir National Park, Konya, Turkey. Built on an earlier Bronze age monument is 7 m (21ft) wide with a central ashlar stone wall with relief sculptures in it. In the face of the monument, there are gods, goddess figures dedicated to gods of the sun goddess and gods of the earth. In front of the monument is a sacred pool measuring 30 x 35 m. Eflatun Pınar was excavated between 1996-2001 by the musuem of Konya and restoration work was carried out in 2011. READ THE HISTORY OF THE HITTITES AT : https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/p/hittites-history Visit our TURKEY PHOTO COLLECTIONS for more photos to download or buy as wall art prints https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/3f-Pictures-of-Turkey-Turkey-Photos-Images-Fotos/C0000U.hJWkZxAbg Add photos of Eflatun Pınar Hittie Monument using ADD TO CART button as royalty free download or prints or download from our ALAMY STOCK LIBRARY page at : https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/paul-williams-funkystock/eflatunpinar-turkey.html

Pictures of the archaelogical site of Hattusa, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Turkey. Hattusha or Hattusa was the capital of the Hittite Empire in the late Bronze age. Situated in central Turkey . The Old Kingdom - Around 1650 BC a Hittite-speaking king had chosen the site as his residence and capital and the city was renamed Hattusha, and the king took the name of Hattusili I or Labarna I and the began of a "Hittite" state and of a royal line of 27 Hittite Kings. Hattusili I fortified Hattusa and from this stronghold he started conquering lands to the South in Syria. Hattusili was succeeded by his son, Murshili I, who continued conquering territory by raiding the important city of Halab (Aleppo) and south in Mesopotamia as well as taking Babylon in 1531 BC. He turned rule of Babylon over his Kassite allies and returned to Hattusha where he was assassinated. The Hittite Kingdom was plunged into chaos and the Hurrians took advantage of this and took Aleppo. A series of weak Hittite kings saw a contraction of the Empire. The NEW KINGDOM - By the 14th century BC kingship had become hereditary and they took on an aura of being “super human” and were referred to as “My Sun” Under Tudhaliya (1380–1360 B.C.) and his son Shuppiluliuma I ( 1370–1330 B.C.) the Hittite Empire was consolidated and began to acquire land in Syria again. Aleppo was re-taken establishing Carchemish as a royal center. Egypt seeked an alliance by marriage of one of Shuppiluliuma’s sons with the widow of Tutankhamen but his son died. During the rule of Muwatalli (1295–1282 B.C) the Hittite capital moved south to Tarhuntasha. Ramesses II attempted to expand into Hittite Territory but was defeated Ramesses at the battle of Kadesh. DECLINE OF THE HITTIE EMPIRE - Under Tudhaliya IV (r. 1245–1215 B.C.), the fortifications of Hattusha were strengthened and the sanctuary of Yazilikaya was constructed. During his reign things stared to go wrong for the Hittites and Syrians incursions started to shrink his Empire as territory was lost in the west. Finally around 1200 mysteriously Hattusa was destroyed and the Empire collapsed in a period known as The Bonze Age Collapse. NEO HITTITES - Although the Hittite Empire disappeared, Hittite culture was kept alive in smaller Syrian Neo-Hittite kingdoms at Carchemish and Milid. These were gradually absorbed into the Neo Assyrian Empire. READ THE HISTORY OF THE HITTITES AT : https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/p/hittites-history USEFUL LINKS Visit our HITTITE PHOTO COLLECTIONS for more photos to download or buy as wall art prints https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/The-Hittites-Art-Artefacts-Antiquities-Historic-Sites-Pictures-Images-of/C0000NUBSMhSc3Oo Add photos of Hattusa Archaeological Site Turkey using ADD TO CART button as royalty free download or prints or download from our ALAMY STOCK LIBRARY page at : https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/paul-williams-funkystock/hattusa-hittite-site-turkey.html

Pictures images photos of the Ivriz Hittite rock relief sculpture monument, Turkey. Photos by photographer Paul E Williams. The monument, a relief from the Late Hittites Empire era (1180-700 B.C), was built by Warpalawas who Was one of the kings of Tuwana about 800 B.0 on the face plate of a rock mass besides the Ivriz River. The Ivriz rock monument which is one of the important artworks of Late Hittite art which became Arameans has the sizes of 4.20x4.20 m, and it is an important monument that has survived since the Tuwana Kingdom which was conquered by the effects of Arameans. In Ivriz Hittite rock monument, Tarhundas the God of Thunder and Warpalawas the king of the region was illustrated. Tarhundas who was illustrated in a bigger size than the king holds a stook and a bunch of grapes in his hands. Thus, it is understood that Tarhundas is also the god of plenitude and fertility. The king is positioned in the opposite of god, smaller and in a praying position. In the relief, there is the expression saying "1 am Warpalawas the king of Tuwana, the ruler and a hero. I planted these grapes while I was a young prince in the palace. Let the god Tarhundas give plenitude and fertility.” READ THE HISTORY OF THE HITTITES AT : https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/p/hittites-history Visit our HITTITE PHOTO COLLECTIONS for more photos to download or buy as wall art prints https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/The-Hittites-Art-Artefacts-Antiquities-Historic-Sites-Pictures-Images-of/C0000NUBSMhSc3Oo Add photos of Ivriz Hittie Relief Monument using ADD TO CART button as royalty free download or prints or download from our ALAMY STOCK LIBRARY page at : https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/paul-williams-funkystock/ivriz-hittite-monument-turkey.html

Pictures & images of the Hittite sculptures and relief panels of Karatepe Open Air Museum, Turkey. Photos by photographer Paul E Williams. Karatepe Aslantas is a Hittite archaeological site in southern Anatolia, Turkey. Karatepe was built as a Hittite fortress on the ancient Akyol trade caravan route which connected Cilicia in the southern palins with Central Anatolia and was used by Phoenician traders who traded manufactured goods for raw metals. Karatepe fortress is also situated on the edge of a gorge and controlled cedar wood that was floated down the ricer Ceyhan ( Pyramos) from Kadirli to the coast to be used in ship building. The fortress with 4m wide walls was founded in the 8th century BC by Azatiwada, the king of Quwê, a Neo-Hittite kingdom, and was originally known as Azatiwadaya. Some of the massive walls of Karatepe Aslantas have been rebuilt and two monumental gates were excavated from 1946 unearthing carved stone orthostat stele. Many of the Neo Hittite basalt orthostats that lined the inner walls of the North and South Gate had bilingual inscriptions in both Phoenician and Luwian hieroglyphics which allowed archaeologists to decipher the Hittite hieroglyphs also known as Anatolian hieroglyphs which were the indigenous logographic script native to central Anatolia, consisting of some 500 signs. Pictures and images of the Hittite stele known as the “Karatepe bilingual," which have been compared to the Rosetta Stone, are to be found in this photo gallery . Pictures of the North and South Gate stele also reveal a wonderful collection of Neo Hittite art Bas relief sculptures of Hittite Gods including a stele with a wonderful sculpture of the Ancient Egyptian God Bes. These stele demonstrate the imaginative nature of Hittite art with sculptures of strange mythical animal Gods, Goddesses and statues of mythical creatures, sphinxes and lions. Many of the Gods are interacting with mortals. Left in situ, where they were placed in the 8th century BC, these Hittite artworks are today protected by a roof from the elements so can be enjoyed 3000 years later by visitors to Karatepe. READ THE HISTORY OF THE HITTITES AT : https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/p/hittites-history Download Pictures & images of the Hittite sculpture art stele of Karatepe Aslantas Open Air Museum on line or buy Hittite art as photo art prints. Add photos of Karatepe Hittite photos using ADD TO CART button Visit our HITTITE PHOTO COLLECTIONS for more photos to download or buy as wall art prints https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/The-Hittites-Art-Artefacts-Antiquities-Historic-Sites-Pictures-Images-of/C0000NUBSMhSc3Oo

Pictures & images of the Karatepe Bilingual Hittite basalt stele and divine statue also known as the Azatiwada inscription. Photos by photographer Paul E Williams. In 1946 inscribed orthostats and a statue were excavated by archaeologists Helmuth Theodor Bossert and Halet Çambel 1946 at Karatepe Aslantas in southern Anatolia, Turkey. The stone slabs and statue were inscribed with a proclamation known as the "Call of Azatiwada” by King Azatiwada who built the fortress at Karatepe written in both Phoenician language script and Luwian hieroglyphs. Compared to the Rosetta stones these bilingual texts allowed scholars to decrypt the similar Anatolian or Hittite hieroglyphs for the first time and therefore learn even more about the ancient Hittite civilisation. The "Call of Azatiwada” starts “I am really Azatiwada, Man of my Sun, the servant of Thunder God, Rendered superior by Avaricus, and the ruler of Adanava, Thunder God rendered me Mother and Father of Adanava city, and I am the one, who developed Adanava city, And I expanded Adanava country, both westward and eastward, And during my reign, I made Adanava city tastes prosperity, satiety and comfort, and I filled the grain warehouses, I added horse to horse, shield to shield, army to army, everything for Thunder God an d the deities, I defeated the feint of the feinters, I expelled country's bad men ……………….” and ends : “Only the name Azatiwada is eternal, forever like the name of the Sun and the Moon.” Thanks to the discovery of the Karatepe Bilingual Hittite basalt steles Azatiwada’s proclamation was rediscovered after being buried for 2500 years. Add photos of Hittite Karatepe Bilingual using ADD TO CART button as royalty free download or prints or, if you prefer, download from our ALAMY STOCK LIBRARY page at READ THE HISTORY OF THE HITTITES AT : https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/p/hittites-history Visit our HITTITE PHOTO COLLECTIONS for more photos to download or buy as wall art prints https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/The-Hittites-Art-Artefacts-Antiquities-Historic-Sites-Pictures-Images-of/C0000NUBSMhSc3Oo

Pictures images photos of Hittite religious rock carvings of Yazılıkaya Hittite rock sanctuary, chamber A, 13th century BC, Hattusa, Bogazale, Turkey. Photos by photographer Paul E Williams. Yazilikaya (i.e. rock with writing) is the largest known Hittite rock sanctuary. The main part of this sacred site is formed by the roofless, court-like chamber A and a much smaller chamber B. Both were separated from the outside by a large building complex that contains the same features as a normal Hittite temple: one enters through a representative gate (1) and passes through a court which is flanked by a columned hall into the holy areas A and B. The major difference is, that chamber A and B were never covered with a roof. One assumes that chamber A at Yazilikaya played an important role during the New Year festivals in March, whereas chamber B probably had function in the ancestors cult of the kings of the 13th cent. BC. Accessible via a narrow passage the chamber B was probably a memorial chapel to Tudhaliya IV dedicated by his son Supiliums II at the end of the 13th century BC. Buried until the end of the last century the reliefs on the walls are much better preserved than those in the main chamber. The row of twelve gods with sickle shaped swords on their shoulders is similar to the last row of male deities in Chamber A. READ THE HISTORY OF THE HITTITES AT : https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/p/hittites-history Visit our HITTITE PHOTO COLLECTIONS for more photos to download or buy as wall art prints https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/The-Hittites-Art-Artefacts-Antiquities-Historic-Sites-Pictures-Images-of/C0000NUBSMhSc3Oo Add photos of Yazılıkaya Hittite Rock Sanctuary using ADD TO CART button as royalty free download or prints or download from our ALAMY STOCK LIBRARY page at : https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/paul-williams-funkystock/yazilikaya-hittite-sanctuary-hattusa.html U

Pictures images photos of the Hittite monumental art, Hittite relief orthostats and Hittite artefacts from Adana Archaeological Museum’s Hittite Collection. Housed in a new museum Adana Archaeological museum is well laid out with some fine examples of Hittite monumental art. At the centre of the Hittite monumental collection is a huge statue of the Storm God Tarhunda being pulled along on a cart by 2 bulls. Similar in style to the Storm God statue of Karatepe the statue is dedicated, according to its hieroglyph inscriptions, to the works of King Wari[ka]’s “King of Hiyawa Country, servant of God of Storm.”. The monumental Tarhunda statue was excavated from a field near Dine village in Yureir District after being discovered by a farmer ploughing his field. The Adana Archaeological Museum Hittite collection also holds other fine examples of Hittite art. Particularly of note is a basalt statue of a man, many Hittite relief sculpted orthostats depicting gods and hunting scenes and a fine example of an anthropomorphic terra cotta jug in the shape of a mythical figure. READ THE HISTORY OF THE HITTITES AT : https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/p/hittites-history Add photos of Adana Museum Hittite Antiquities using ADD TO CART button as royalty free download or prints or download from our ALAMY STOCK LIBRARY page at https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/paul-williams-funkystock/hittite-art-antiquities.html Type - Adana - into the LOWER SEARCH WITHIN GALLERY box to refine search by adding background colour, etc Visit our HITTITE PHOTO COLLECTIONS for more photos to download or buy as wall art prints https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/The-Hittites-Art-Artefacts-Antiquities-Historic-Sites-Pictures-Images-of/C0000NUBSMhSc3Oo

Pictures photos images of Hittite art, artefacts, art and relief sculptures exhibited at the Ankara Anatolian Civilisations Museum, Turkey. The best on line gallery of Hittite art from the Ankara Anatolian Civilizations Museum. The Ankara Anatolian Civilisations Museum has an incredible collection of Hittite art orthostat stone panels that is one of the most important Hittite art collections in the world. Added to this are many Hittite archaeological grave goods finds that show the skill and diversity of Hittite potters and artisans. The Ankara Anatolian Civilizations Museum also houses many of the cuneiform tablets from Hattusa which are still being translated by academics making the museum one of the major centres of Hittite scholarship. The museums collections of Hittite art include sculpted panels from Karkemish, Aslantepe & Alacahöyük. These Hittite sculptures show the full range of the Hittite artists creativity with Bas reliefs of Hittite Gods and with scenes from the history of Gilgamesh. Hittite art has its own distinctive style and the vast amount of Hittite Gods forced Hittite artists to be creative. To modern eyes Hittite art can look baffling with creatures that are half man, beast, bird and animal. Hittite sculpture depicts mythical beings in a very direct way and in an endearing style that still holds the viewers attention 3000 years after it was created. Unfortunately modern eyes can only guess what Hittite art is depicting but we still get a strong impression of a people absorbed by mystical stories of their Gods. A visit to the Ankara Anatolian Civilisations Museum Hittite artefacts collection is a wonderful experience for Hittite art addicts and for those that want to discover the artworks of a great ancient civilisation. READ THE HISTORY OF THE HITTITES AT : https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/p/hittites-history Add photos of Hittite Art from Museum of Anatolian Civilisations Museum using ADD TO CART button as royalty free download or prints or, if you prefer, download from our ALAMY STOCK LIBRARY page at https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/paul-williams-funkystock/hittite-art-antiquities.html - Type - Ankara - into the LOWER SEARCH WITHIN GALLERY box. Refine search by adding background colour, place, museum etc Visit our HITTITE PHOTO COLLECTIONS for more photos to download or buy as wall art prints https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/The-Hittites-Art-Artefacts-Antiquities-Historic-Sites-Pictures-Images-of/C0000NUBSMhSc3Oo

Pictures photos images of the Hittite Fasillar Monument copy held at the Museum of Anatolian Civilisations, Ankara, Turkey. The original Fasillar Monument is an unfinished monumental stele that is situated flat on the back on a slope at the immediate vicinity of the village FasIllar within the Konya province, Beysehir. This is an exact replica of the original that was made of trachyte igneous rock. This represents the original that was cast into the mould of the same dimensions and colour. The height from the toes to the top of the lions is 7,40 meters. There is also a socket that is 80 cm. Long inserted into the basement. The Hittite monument dates from the end of 13th century BC There appears the great God higher than 4 meters stepping on the smaller mountain God that is accompanied by the lions on. Download Pictures & images of the Hittite Fasillar Monument or buy as photo art prints on line. READ THE HISTORY OF THE HITTITES AT : https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/p/hittites-history Add photos of Fasillar Monument Hittite Art from the Museum of Anatolian Civilisations using ADD TO CART button as royalty free download or prints or, if you prefer, download from our ALAMY STOCK LIBRARY page at https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/paul-williams-funkystock/hittite-art-antiquities.html . Type - Fasillar - into the LOWER SEARCH WITHIN GALLERY box. Refine search by adding background colour, etc Visit our HITTITE PHOTO COLLECTIONS for more photos to download or buy as wall art prints https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/The-Hittites-Art-Artefacts-Antiquities-Historic-Sites-Pictures-Images-of/C0000NUBSMhSc3Oo

Pictures & images of Hittite pottery and pots artefacts and antiquities from Hattusa in the museum collection of the Museum of the Anatolian Civilisations, Ankara, Turkey. Hattusa ( Bogazkoy ) was the capital of the Hittite Empire in the late Bronze Age. Only discovered in the mid 18th century, excavations were not started until 1906 and continue today. The dating of Hittite pottery is difficult as it is difficult to define Hittite pottery and assign it to the Hittites. The safest descriptions would be Hittite style pottery which can be described as the “ Hittite ‘drab ware’, which always forms the majority of finds. This wheel- thrown, buff coloured fabric type used to be well fired under oxidising conditions and to be tempered with fine stone grit. The other type of pottery finds are good fine ware, mainly bowls with extremely thin walls and fired to a clinky hardness” (Ulf-Dietrich Schoop - Pottery Traditions of the Later Hittite Empire: Problems of Definition) . The pottery collection of the Museum of the Anatolian Civilisations contains examples of cult bull vessels, long neck Hittite vases, double handles jus with human faces and lion cult vessels. READ THE HISTORY OF THE HITTITES AT : https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/p/hittites-history Add photos of Hittite Pottery Antiquities of the Museum of the Anatolian Civilisations, using ADD TO CART button as royalty free download or prints or download from our ALAMY STOCK LIBRARY page at https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/paul-williams-funkystock/hittite-art-antiquities.html Type - Hattusa Pottery - into the LOWER SEARCH WITHIN GALLERY box to refine search by adding background colour, etc VISIT OUR HITTITE SITE AT: https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/The-Hittites-Art-Artefacts-Antiquities-Historic-Sites-Pictures-Images-of/C0000NUBSMhSc3Oo

Pictures photos images of Alaca Hoyuk (Alaca Höyük, Alacahoyuk) Neo Hittite sculpted relief stone orthostat panels and museum artefacts from the Museum of Anatolian Civilisations, Ankara. Alaca Hoyuk ruins are situated 15 km northwest of Alaca town of Corum, Province, 16o km east of Ankara. The first excavations was made in 1907 by Theodore Macrdy for a short period, and later, by the orders of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in 1935. It is important in that it was the first Turkish excavation made in our country. Slowing down upon the death of Ataturk in 1938 and terminating as of 1983, the excavations were re-launched in 1996 by Faculty of Language History and Geography, Ankara University, with the support of the ministry of Culture and Tourism, which are still continuing. Alaca Hoyuk was a major cult and art centre during Early Bronze Age and Hittite Period and several culture layers were excavated belonging to Early Bronze Age, Hittite, Phrygian, Hellenistic, Roman, Eastern Roman, Seljuk and Ottoman periods. The best preserved feature of Alaca Hoyuk is the Sphinx-gate. The outer and inner walls of the Sphinx Gate were clad with Hittite sculpted relief stone orthostat panels. Originally carved on each side of the gates sphinx statues, inside the doorway ; there now remains only traces of the relief on the right-hand sphinx, showing the lower part of a human figure standing upon a double-headed eagle seizing hares in its claws, a motif we have seen at Yazilikaya. These Hittite reliefs form a continuous scene representing a sacrifice by the king and queen, followed by attendants, to a divinity—the storm-god—in the form of a bull. The king wears 'priestly garb ' and carries the lituus, He is standing in front of the altar in an attitude of adoration, hand raised towards the image of the god, the normal attitude of prayer. In another Hittite orthostat an attendant leading in the animals—rams and goats—for the sacrifice. A further reliefs depicts jugglers and another with a hunting scenes show art unexpected liberty of movement and an understanding of animal life, already noticeable in the statuettes of stags and bulls. 'These reliefs are by no means typical of Hittite art, which is as a rule extremely formal. Add photos of Hittite Art from the Museum of Anatolian Civilisations using ADD TO CART button as royalty free download or prints or, if you prefer, download from our ALAMY STOCK LIBRARY page at https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/paul-williams-funkystock/hittite-art-antiquities.html . Type - Alaca Hoyuk - into the LOWER SEARCH WITHIN GALLERY box. Refine search by adding background colour, etc READ THE HISTORY OF THE HITTITES AT : https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/p/hittites-history Visit our HITTITE PHOTO COLLECTIONS for more photos to download or buy as wall art prints https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/The-Hittites-Art-Artefacts-Antiquities-Historic-Sites-Pictures-Images-of/C0000NUBSMhSc3Oo

Pictures photos images of Aslantepe Neo Hittite sculpted relief stone orthostat panels and museum artefacts from the Museum of Anatolian Civilisations, Ankara. Aslantepe is situated west of Euphrates River, at 7 km north east of the modern city of Malatya, which was founded in 1838: Inhabited from 5000 BC until 11th Century A.C, Aslantepe is known as the city of "Melidia-Meliddu" in written Hittite sources. The first excavations were carried out in 1930 by L. Delaporte, the French archaeologist. During the excavations; two lion statues on both sides of the entrance gate and courtyard, which were decorated with low-relief on the stone, the statue of the buried King Mutallu across it, and the Late Hittite Palace were found. During the excavations made by "La Sapienza University" of Rome since 1961; a temple and numerous seals and seal imprints belonging to 3600-3500 BC. were uncovered as well as the adobe palace belonging to the years of 3300-3000 BC. The Hittite lion statue date from 1200 B.C and was excavated from the gate of the palace. His head and his front part were processed as high embossing and his body as regular embossing. The signs behind the lion and over his tail read; "Halposulupis, Mighty (?) King”. A group of Hittite orthostats depict scenes of offering drink and sacrifice. On one orthostat the god, with a symbol of divinity above, is in the chariot while holding a boomerang in his hand and a sword at his waist. The same god holds a lightning bundle in the middle. On the right, the king offers a drink to god. The inscription above reads "Great, powerful King Sulumeli". A servant stands behind holding a bull for sacrifice to the gods. In another Hittite orthostat from the same group is another scene of king's offering drink and sacrifice to the god. This time the god is on the deer, with the bow attached to his shoulder and with a triple bundle of lightning in his hand. The king looks at the god, and makes the libation to the god while carrying a sceptre with a curled end - lituus. Behind the king is a servant holding a goat for sacrifice to the god. Hieroglyphs read; "God Parata, Strong King... ". READ THE HISTORY OF THE HITTITES AT : https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/p/hittites-history Add photos of Aslantepe Hittite Art from the Museum of Anatolian Civilisations using ADD TO CART button as royalty free download or prints or, if you prefer, download from our ALAMY STOCK LIBRARY page at https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/paul-williams-funkystock/hittite-art-antiquities.html . Type - Aslantepe - into the LOWER SEARCH WITHIN GALLERY box. Refine search by adding background colour, etc Visit our HITTITE PHOTO COLLECTIONS for more photos to download or buy as wall art prints https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/The-Hittites-Art-Artefacts-Antiquities-Historic-Sites-Pictures-Images-of/C0000NUBSMhSc3Oo

Pictures photos images of the Neo Hittite sculpted relief stone orthostat panels of Karkamis ( Karkamış, Carchemish or Karkemish) archeological site, Turkey. Hittite stone artefacts of the Museum of Anatolian Civilisations, Ankara. After George Smith (1876) had found that the ruins of Carchemish, Hogarth, Lawrence, Campbell-Thompson and Woolley made excavation works between the years of respectively,1878-1881,1911-1914 and 1919-1920 on behalf of the British Museum. Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia excavated Carchemish before the First World War. An extraordinary series of finds emerged, including basalt reliefs showing Hittite gods and goddesses, lions, kings and warriors, some now in the British Museum, many in Ankara. Lawrence himself lived in a house on the site, where he learned Arabic and began his fascination with the Middle East. Kargamis was inhabited since the Neolithic Age, and in 2000 BC, it was one of the largest cities in southern Anatolia. Carchemish dominated as the capital of Late Hittite Kingdom for a period of 300 years, and after preserving its political existence during the reign of the Late Assyrian King Sargon, it became an Assyrian province in 7th century BC Consisting of three sections as Outer City, Inner City and the Citadel (the inner castle), the City has a rectangular structures. The structures are decorated with black basalt and white limestone orthostats covered with the reliefs Hittite-Assyrian style. Neo Hittite sculpted relief stone orthostat panels groups of Carchemish are known as The Water Gate group, The Royal Buttress Group, The Herald’s Wall Group and The Long Wall Group. The style of the Hittite orthostats from these groups can be characterised as: Style 1 in which the Hittite panels are sculpted in low relief in a two dimensional way. Style 2 in which the Hittite panels are deeply sculpted with a sculpted surface creating more 3 dimensional panels. The late Neo Hittite Syrian style of Carchemish uses very rounded outline to figures and depicts figures in a more naturalistic way than older Hittite art styles. Carchemish has some of the best Hittite orthostats that use this late Hittite style. READ THE HISTORY OF THE HITTITES AT : https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/p/hittites-history Add photos of Karkamis Hittite Art from the Museum of Anatolian Civilisations using ADD TO CART button as royalty free download or prints or, if you prefer, download from our ALAMY STOCK LIBRARY page at https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/paul-williams-funkystock/hittite-art-antiquities.html . Type - Karkamis - into the LOWER SEARCH WITHIN GALLERY box. Refine search by adding background colour, etc Visit our HITTITE PHOTO COLLECTIONS for more photos to download or buy as wall art prints https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/The-Hittites-Art-Artefacts-Antiquities-Historic-Sites-Pictures-Images-of/C0000NUBSMhSc3Oo

Pictures photos images of the Herald’s Gate Karkamis (Carchemish Karkemish) ,Neo Hittite sculpted relief stone orthostat panels. Turkey. Hittite stone artefacts of the Museum of Anatolian Civilisations, Ankara. The Heralds’s Wall Neo Hittite sculpted relief stone orthostat panels at Carchemish were excavated from the wall that turns right from the Kings Gate towards the Water Gate. The Hittite orthostats of the Herald’s Wall are of a completely different style to those of the Kings Gate. No inscriptions have been found in connection with the Herald's Wall and the dating, which can be attempted only on stylistic grounds, accordingly remains extremely vague, the reliefs being variously assigned to the time of King Katuwas son of Luhas II, in the ninth century B.C. or to the fourteenth century B.C. The slabs follow the usual Hittite pattern : alternate lime-stone and basalt reliefs. The subjects figured on the slabs of the Herald's Wall and their significance are not always clear to us : there is a succession of mythological and everyday scenes, with the former preponderant, and the whole decorative scheme is yet another feature of the Late Hittite period. Most figures clearly have a magical connotation : they are there to ward off evil influences. The mythical Hittite Gods orthostats include that of the "Winged Griffin Demons” with griffins heads on human bodies. The orthostat is sculpted symmetrically and the winged hands are held assumably to the heavens. The same style of carving was used on the Hittite orthostat of a Three-headed sphinxes. The mythical creature is a winged lion, with a bird of prey's head on the end of its tail, also has a human head with hair in plaits and a conical headdress. A further Hittite orthostat graphically depicts a bearded human figure with a short skirt with a dagger in his right hand, he is stabbing the lion standing on his front legs while holding the lion's tail with his left hand. On the left is a bearded god figure with a horned-headdress, who grasps the lion's hind leg while holding the ax over his head with his right hand. Add photos of Hittite Karkamis Heralds Gate relief panels from the Museum of Anatolian Civilisations using ADD TO CART button as royalty free download or prints or, if you prefer, download from our ALAMY STOCK LIBRARY page at https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/paul-williams-funkystock/hittite-art-antiquities.html - Type - Karkamis -into the LOWER SEARCH WITHIN GALLERY box. Refine search by adding background colour, place, museum etc READ THE HISTORY OF THE HITTITES AT : https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/p/hittites-history Visit our HITTITE PHOTO COLLECTIONS for more photos to download or buy as wall art prints https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/The-Hittites-Art-Artefacts-Antiquities-Historic-Sites-Pictures-Images-of/C0000NUBSMhSc3Oo

Pictures images photos of the Hüseyindede vases (Inandik or Inandiktepe) A Hittite relief cult Vase held at the Museum of Anatolian Civilisations, Ankara, Turkey. In late 1965, near 100 KM north west of Hattusa (Bogazkoy) at Iandiktepe on the road from Ankara to Çankiri, a bulldozer excavating a hillside exposed sherds of Hittite polychrome relief pottery. Raci Temizer, head of the Museum of Anatolian Civilisations, led emergency excavations that exposed the foundations of a 30-room structure dating to the Hittite period. The excavations unearthed an almost-intact relief vase which is known as the Inandik Vase dating from the 16th century BC. Made of a fine red terra cotta and covered with a polished red slip, the Indandik Hittite relief vase is 82 cm high and 51 cm wide. It is a funnel-rim vase with a round bottom, large oval body, four vertical handles at the shoulder, and a flaring top. The neck, shoulders and belly of the vase are covered with four decorative friezes, featuring figures coloured in cream, red, and black. The top frieze depicts figures of both genders engaged in music-making, acrobatics, and astonishingly a sex act. In all, there are 11 figures, six women and five men. The figures on this frieze are depicted moving from left to right. In the second frieze is depicted a procession of eight people of both genders going towards a painted building. The procession is moving towards an altar to make offerings to the Gods. Typical of later Hittite stone relief panels such as those at Alaca Hoyuk, it can be seen that the Hittite worship of the Gods was joyous with music and entertainment. It has been suggested that the Hittites fed and entertained their Gods to keep them happy during cult ceremonies. The Indandik Hittite relief vase would have contained libations that would have been offered to the God at the centre of the cult ceremony. Add photos of Hittite Hüseyindede relief vases of the Museum of Anatolian Civilisations using ADD TO CART button as royalty free download or prints or, if you prefer, download from our ALAMY STOCK LIBRARY page at https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/paul-williams-funkystock/hittite-art-antiquities.html - Type - Inandik -into the LOWER SEARCH WITHIN GALLERY box. Refine search by adding background colour, place, museum etc READ THE HISTORY OF THE HITTITES AT : https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/p/hittites-history Visit our HITTITE PHOTO COLLECTIONS for more photos to download or buy as wall art prints https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/The-Hittites-Art-Artefacts-Antiquities-Historic-Sites-Pictures-Images-of/C0000NUBSMhSc3Oo

Pictures photos images of the Hittite Pottery from Kultepe Kanesh from the Museum of Anatolian Civilisations, Ankara, Turkey. The Hittite style of arty and pottery drew its inspiration from its Mesopotamian and Anatolian predecessors. That said Hittite pottery has its own style. Typically pots are terra cotta with red terracottas being the most popular. Early Hittite pottery is largely undecorated and the pots have a smooth shiny finish. Although simple in finish, the Hittite potters liked elegant shapes with the bill shaped spout being a popular design. The Hittite pottery from Kultepe Karnesh demonstrates the skill of the Hittite potters from 1700 BC to about 1500 BC. Add photos of Hittite Kultepe Pottery from Museum of Anatolian Civilisations, using ADD TO CART button as royalty free download or prints or, if you prefer, download from our ALAMY STOCK LIBRARY page at https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/paul-williams-funkystock/hittite-art-antiquities.html - Type - Kultepe Pottery - into the LOWER SEARCH WITHIN GALLERY box. Refine search by adding background colour, etc READ THE HISTORY OF THE HITTITES AT : https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/p/hittites-history Visit our HITTITE PHOTO COLLECTIONS for more photos to download or buy as wall art prints https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/The-Hittites-Art-Artefacts-Antiquities-Historic-Sites-Pictures-Images-of/C0000NUBSMhSc3Oo

The Long Wall Hittite art sculpted orthostat stone panels from Karkamis ( Karkamış, Karkemish, Carchemish) Turkey. Hittite artefacts of the Museum of Anatolian Civilisations, Ankara. The Neo Hittite archaeological site of Karkamis) is situated in Giantep province, on the western shore of the Euphrates on the Turkey - Syria border, Excavations were made from 1878 by the British Museum. The Hittite sculpted orthostats of the Long Wall of Carchemish (Karkemish) contain gods, chariots, and armed warriors wearing a crested helmet. This late Hittite style sees a more naturalistic line in the depiction of human and animal figures. Figures look more realistic and a true three quarter depiction is achieved giving the figures a greater 3 dimensional effect. The Hittite sculpted orthostats of the Long Wall of Karkamis (Karkamış, Karkemish)contain several panels which depict Chariots. Typically one of the two figures in the chariot holds the horse's reins while the other, an archer, fires arrows. On some of these panels there is a naked enemy with an arrow in his him lying face down under the horse's feet. It is thought that this figure is depicted smaller than the other figures since it is an enemy soldier. The lower part of the orthostat is decorated with braiding motifs. Two of The Hittite sculpted orthostats of the Long Wall of Karkamis (Karkamış, Karkemish) are dedicated the the Goddess Kubaba. The Goddess is depicted from the profile. She holds a pomegranate in her hands on her chest. She wears a one-horned headdress on her head and her braided hair hangs down to her shoulder. One group of Hittite sculpted orthostats of the Long Wall of Karkamis (Karkamış, Karkemish)depicts a military parade with figures of helmeted warriors. They have their shield in their back and their spear in their hand. A prisoner in their front is depicted as small. The lower part of the orthostat is decorated with braiding motifs. Download pictures & images of the Long Wall Hittite art sculpted orthostat stone panels from Karkamis (Karkamış, Karkemish) or buy as photo art prints on line. Add photos of Hittite Karkamis Long Wall relief panels from the Museum of Anatolian Civilisations using ADD TO CART button as royalty free download or prints or, if you prefer, download from our ALAMY STOCK LIBRARY page at https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/paul-williams-funkystock/hittite-art-antiquities.html - Type - Karkamis -into the LOWER SEARCH WITHIN GALLERY box. Refine search by adding background colour, place, museum etc READ THE HISTORY OF THE HITTITES AT : https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/p/hittites-history Visit our HITTITE PHOTO COLLECTIONS for more photos to download or buy as wall art prints https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/The-Hittites-Art-Artefacts-Antiquities-Historic-Sites-Pictures-Images-of/C0000NUBSMhSc3Oo

Pictures photos images of the Royal Buttress Neo Hittite sculpted relief stone orthostat panels, Karkamis ( Carchemish, Karkemish), Turkey. Hittite artefacts of the Museum of Anatolian Civilisations, Ankara. The Hittite relief orthostat panels of the Royal Buttress of Carchemish (Karkemish) are some of the best examples of the late Assyrian Neo Hittite artistic style. The rounded contours in the head, face and arms are distinctive in the Hittite relief panels of these groups. Face and neck lines are treated significantly. The surfaces of these relief orthostats display a round shaping, with a noticeable puff of the organs, and the details on the wings of the griffin have been shaped with deep lines. The hieroglyph panel of the Royal Buttress Hittite panels contains the so called Discourse of Yariris, the last king of Kargarni, "Tarvanis-Ruler", Yariris and Kamanis are pictured in the Royal Buttress. The opening reads: "I, Yariris the ruler.. Prince of..., the prince loved by the gods whose reputation exceeding the west and east..... The next Hittite relief panel of the Royal Buttress depicts King Araras holding his son Kamanis by the wrist. The King carries a sceptre in his hand and a sword at his waist while the prince leans on a stick and carries a sword on his shoulder. The next Hittite relief panel of the Royal Buttress depicts 8 out of 10 children of the King, and one figure walking by leaning on a stick; below are two each figures playing the knucklebones and turning whirligigs”. The final Hittite relief panel of the Royal Buttress depicts The queen carries her youngest son. The hieroglyphs located above read; "and this is Tuwarsais; the prince desired by the ruler, whose exclusiveness has been exposed". While the queen carries her son in her lap, she holds the rope of the colt coming behind with her other hand. The other Royal Buttress relief panel depicts a procession of figures, each with a long dress, a thick belt and curly hair. Some figures hold spears in their right hand and other figures carry tools with his right hand at the level of his head. They are followed with a figure holding a sceptre in his left hand. All have a long sword each at their waist. Add photos of Hittite Karkamis Royal Butress Relief Panels using ADD TO CART button as royalty free download or prints or, if you prefer, download from our ALAMY STOCK LIBRARY page at https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/paul-williams-funkystock/hittite-art-antiquities.html - Type Inandik into the LOWER SEARCH WITHIN GALLERY box. Refine search by adding background colour, place, museum etc READ THE HISTORY OF THE HITTITES AT : https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/p/hittites-history Visit our HITTITE PHOTO COLLECTIONS for more photos to download or buy as wall art prints https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/The-Hittites-Art-Artefacts-Antiquities-Historic-Sites-Pictures-Images-of/C0000NUBSMhSc3Oo

The Water Gate Neo Hittite sculpted relief stone orthostat panels, Karkamis (Karkamış, Carchemish or Karkemish), Turkey. Hittite artefacts of the Museum of Anatolian Civilisations, Ankara. Karkamis straddles the Turkish Syrian border in southern Anatolia. The late Hittite capital for 300 years Karkamis was an important centre. Excavations have found the most important collection of Late Neo Hittite Syrian Hittite monumental stone orthostats that clad the Gates and important buildings of the city. One of these groups of Hittite art panels clad the exterior of the Water Gate. The Water Gate Neo Hittite sculpted relief stone orthostat panels have a clean and deeply prepared surface and the figures are of low relief form typical of the late Neo Hittite Syrian style of 900-700 BC. The Water Gate contains two groups of Hittite orthostats : In Karkamis II-a style group, the figures and the details in the relief are not noticeable. In reliefs carved from the front, the swelling and protrusion are evident on the surfaces. An example of this style contains musicians. The figure sitting on a stool to the left of the table in the Hittite orthostat holds a goblet in his right hand which he raised upwards. Behind, there is a servant with a fan in his hand. On the other side of the table is another servant waits with a vessel in the hands. The rightmost figure plays a Saz (a stringed musical instrument) with the tassel on the handle. In Karkamis II-b style reliefs, dimensions and the details figures are distinctive and carved deeply into the stone. Faces and cheeks are plump, and the eyes, noses, mouths are very well shaped. An example of this type of Hittite style is the orthostat depicting Two bull men holding the trunk of the tree in the middle. The faces of the figures have been depicted from the front direction. The horned figures with bull like ears and legs have human bodies. The common feature of these two groups is that people, gods, heroes, and human-bodied mixed creatures wear the same type of clothes. Add photos of Hittite Karkamis Water Gate Relief Panels using ADD TO CART button as royalty free download or prints or, if you prefer, download from our ALAMY STOCK LIBRARY page at https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/paul-williams-funkystock/hittite-art-antiquities.html - Type Inandik into the LOWER SEARCH WITHIN GALLERY box. Refine search by adding background colour, place, museum etc READ THE HISTORY OF THE HITTITES AT : https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/p/hittites-history Visit our HITTITE PHOTO COLLECTIONS for more photos to download or buy as wall art prints https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/The-Hittites-Art-Artefacts-Antiquities-Historic-Sites-Pictures-Images-of/C0000NUBSMhSc3Oo

Pictures images and photos of the Hittite antiquities from Hattusa Archaeological site held at Boğazköy (Bogazkoy Museum , Turkey. Hattusa was the capital of the Hittite Empire in the late Bronze Age. Its ruins lie near modern Boğazkale, Turkey, within the great loop of the Kızılırmak River. Before 2000 BC, the apparently indigenous Hattian people established a settlement on sites that had been occupied even earlier and referred to the site as Hattush. The Hattians built their initial settlement on the high ridge of Büyükkale. The earliest traces of settlement on the site are from the sixth millennium BC. In the 19th and 18th centuries BC, merchants from Assur in Assyria established a trading post there, setting up in their own separate quarter of the city. The center of their trade network was located in Kanesh (Neša) (modern Kültepe). Business dealings required record-keeping: the trade network from Assur introduced writing to Hattusa, in the form of cuneiform. Only a generation later, a Hittite-speaking king chose the site as his residence and capital. The Hittite language had been gaining speakers at the expense of Hattic for some time. The Hattic Hattush now became the Hittite Hattusa, and the king took the name of Hattusili, the "one from Hattusa". Hattusili marked the beginning of a non-Hattic-speaking "Hittite" state and of a royal line of Hittite Great Kings, 27 of whom are now known by name. At its peak, the city covered 1.8 km² and comprised an inner and outer portion, both surrounded by a massive and still visible course of walls erected during the reign of Suppiluliuma I (circa 1344–1322 BC. Hattusa was mysteriously destroyed and lost to history until In 1833, when the French archaeologist Charles Texier (1802–1871) was sent on an exploratory mission to Turkey, where in 1834 he discovered ruins of the ancient Hittite capital of Hattusa. Ernest Chantre opened some trial trenches at the village then called Boğazköy, in 1893–94. Hattusa was added to the UNESCO World Heritage Site list in 1986. The Boğazköy (Bogazkoy) Museum is in the village of the same name outside the Hattusa and contains some interesting Hittite artefacts as well as original Sphinx statues from Hattusa. READ THE HISTORY OF THE HITTITES AT : https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/p/hittites-history Visit our HITTITE PHOTO COLLECTIONS for more photos to download or buy as wall art prints https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/The-Hittites-Art-Artefacts-Antiquities-Historic-Sites-Pictures-Images-of/C0000NUBSMhSc3Oo (updated 2021) Add photos of Hittite Art from Adana Museum using ADD TO CART button as royalty free download or prints or, if you prefer, download from our ALAMY STOCK LIBRARY page at https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/paul-williams-funkystock/hittite-art-antiquities.html - Type Inandik into the LOWER SEARCH WITHIN GALLERY box. Refine search by adding background colour, place, museum etc

MuseoPics on line photos of the Neo Hittite panel exhibited at the British Museum London. This picture gallery shows the fragment of a Neo Hittite panel. Neo Hittite panels are rare and this Neo Hittite Basalt relief sculpture for Carchemish is of a Syrian storm god who traditionally wears a horned headdress. 10th century B.C from Carchemish , south-east Anatolia, Turkey. Pictures and images of Neo Hittite panel from the British Musuem can be bought on line as photo art prints or downloaded as high resolution stock photos READ THE HISTORY OF THE HITTITES AT : https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/p/hittites-history

Pictures photos images of the Hittite monumental stone relief orthostat panels and Hittite art sculptures of the Istanbul Archaeological museum, Istanbul, Turkey. The Istanbul Archaeological Museum houses many ancient Hittite artefacts. Amonst them are Hittite Relief sculture orthostats from Sam’al at Zincirli Hoyuk in the Anti-Taurus mountains of Anatolia, Turkey. The Istanbul Archaeological museum orthostats from Sam’al depict some of the vast Hittite pantheon of Gods and deities such as the Aslan Lion from 9th Cent B.C, excavated from the west side of the citadel gate of Sam’al. One of the portal lion statues is also house at the musuem as well as a hittite basalt Double Sphinx sculpture from 9th Cent B.C, excavated from the entrance of Palace III. The Istanbul Museum Hittie collection also includes Hittite funereal steles such as the Late Hittite Basalt funereal Steel with a relief sculpture of a warrior from 9 - 8th Cent B.C, excavated from Arslan Tash (Turkish; Arslan Lion, Taş Stone), ancient Hadātu, is an archaeological site in northern Syria 30km east of the Euphrates River and nearby the town of Ain al-Arab. READ THE HISTORY OF THE HITTITES AT : https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/p/hittites-history Visit our HITTITE PHOTO COLLECTIONS for more photos to download or buy as wall art prints https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/The-Hittites-Art-Artefacts-Antiquities-Historic-Sites-Pictures-Images-of/C0000NUBSMhSc3Oo Add photos of Hittite Art from Istanbul Archaeological Museum using ADD TO CART button as royalty free download or prints or, if you prefer, download from our ALAMY STOCK LIBRARY page at https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/paul-williams-funkystock/hittite-art-antiquities.html - Type - Istanbul - into the LOWER SEARCH WITHIN GALLERY box. Refine search by adding background colour, place, etc

Pictures & images of the Hittite art sculpture relief panels from the Louvre Museum Paris. This picture gallery of Hittite sculpture shows 9th century BC stone Neo-Hittite/ Aramaean Orthostats from Palace Temple of the Aramaean city of Tell Halaf, ancient Guzana, in northeastern Syria close to the Turkish border. The Orthostats are in a Neo Hittite style and depict a mythical God. Download pictures and images of Neo-Hittite sculpture relief panels from the Louvre or buy as photo art prints photos READ THE HISTORY OF THE HITTITES AT : https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/p/hittites-history Visit our HITTITE PHOTO COLLECTIONS for more photos to download or buy as wall art prints https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/The-Hittites-Art-Artefacts-Antiquities-Historic-Sites-Pictures-Images-of/C0000NUBSMhSc3Oo Add photos of Hittite Art from Adana Museum using ADD TO CART button as royalty free download or prints or, if you prefer, download from our ALAMY STOCK LIBRARY page at https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/paul-williams-funkystock/hittite-art-antiquities.html - Type - Louvre - into the LOWER SEARCH WITHIN GALLERY box. Refine search by adding background colour, place, etc

Pictures & images of the ancient Hittite monumental relief orthostat sculpture artefacts from the Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin. The Hittites were a Bronze Age civilisation that ruled large parts of Mesopotamia from 1680-1180 BC and rivalled Egypt in its power. When the Hittite Empire collapsed small independent principalities formed in Syria and Anatolian Turkey known as Neo Hittites or Syro-Hittites. Tell Halaf is one of the Syro Hittite Principalities. Situated in north east of Syria. Tell Halaf is in the fertile valley of the Khabur River. Its ruins were discovered in 1899 by Baron Von Oppenheim, who was surveying the area to build the Bagdad Railway from 1911 to 1913, excavated Tell Halaf. The resultant finds revealed the Syro Hittite orthostats that are exhibited in the The Vorderasiatisches Museum (Near East Museum) Berlin. Sam’al, Known in Hittite as Yadiya, was a Hittite and Aramaean city located at Zincirli Höyük in the Anti-Taurus Mountains of modern Turkey's Gaziantep Province. Sam'al was excavated between 1888 and 1902 by the German Oriental Society led by Felix Von Luschan and Robert Koldewey. The excavations on the citadel recovered large numbers of relief-carved Syro Hittite orthostats which were returned to the Pergamon museum. The Syro Hittite orthostats in the Pergamon Museum are typical of the Neo Hittite style orthostats found at the old Hittite cities all over Anatolia and Northern Syria. Made between 100-800BC these late Bronze age artworks depict mythical animals and gods from the vast pantheon of Hittite Gods. The on going translation of clay cuneiform tablets from the Old Hittite Kingdom capital of Hattusa, in Northern Anatolia, have revealed that the Hittites had a God for nearly everything. Every animal had a God version as did inanimate objects and certain places had specific Gods associated with them. When the Hittites conquered new territory they took on the local Gods of the peoples they subjugated. The Hittites venerated a vast pantheon of deities and the art they produced to venerate the Gods reveals how creative Hittite artists imagination was. The Orthostats were used as wall decorations in the Temples, Gateways and Palaces of the Syro Hittite cities. READ THE HISTORY OF THE HITTITES AT : https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/p/hittites-history Visit our HITTITE PHOTO COLLECTIONS for more photos to download or buy as wall art prints https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/The-Hittites-Art-Artefacts-Antiquities-Historic-Sites-Pictures-Images-of/C0000NUBSMhSc3Oo Add photos of Hittite Art from Vorderasiatisches Pergamon Museum using ADD TO CART button as royalty free download or prints or, if you prefer, download from our ALAMY STOCK LIBRARY page at https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/paul-williams-funkystock/hittite-art-antiquities.html - Type Berlin into the LOWER SEARCH WITHIN GALLERY box. Refine search by adding background colour, place, museum etc

Pictures & Images of the Hittite relief sculptures of Tell Halaf from the Vorderasiatisches Pergamon Museum, Berlin. In the Bronze Age Tell Halaf was a Hittite ruling city, and then in the 10th century BCE the location of the Aramaean city-state of Guzana or Gozan. By the end of the 9th century it was a famous Aramean city-state. The many finds of monumental sculpture removed to various museums around the world mostly date from the later periods. READ THE HISTORY OF THE HITTITES AT : https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/p/hittites-history Visit our HITTITE PHOTO COLLECTIONS for more photos to download or buy as wall art prints https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/The-Hittites-Art-Artefacts-Antiquities-Historic-Sites-Pictures-Images-of/C0000NUBSMhSc3Oo (updated 2021) Add photos of Hittite Art from Vorderasiatisches Pergamon Museum using ADD TO CART button as royalty free download or prints or, if you prefer, download from our ALAMY STOCK LIBRARY page at https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/paul-williams-funkystock/hittite-art-antiquities.html - Type Berlin into the LOWER SEARCH WITHIN GALLERY box. Refine search by adding background colour, place, museum etc

Pictures photos Images of the Hittite relief sculptures of Coba Hoyuk from the Vorderasiatisches Museum, Pergamon Museum, Berlin. Coba Höyük, also known as Sakçe Gözü or Sakçagözü, is an archaeological site in southeastern Anatolia. Although the Hittite kingdom disappeared from Anatolia at this point, there emerged a number of so-called Syro-Hittite states in Anatolia and northern Syria. They were the successors of the Hittite Kingdom. READ THE HISTORY OF THE HITTITES AT : https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/p/hittites-history Visit our HITTITE PHOTO COLLECTIONS for more photos to download or buy as wall art prints https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/The-Hittites-Art-Artefacts-Antiquities-Historic-Sites-Pictures-Images-of/C0000NUBSMhSc3Oo (updated 2021) Add photos of Hittite Art from Vorderasiatisches Pergamon Museum using ADD TO CART button as royalty free download or prints or, if you prefer, download from our ALAMY STOCK LIBRARY page at https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/paul-williams-funkystock/hittite-art-antiquities.html - Type Berlin into the LOWER SEARCH WITHIN GALLERY box. Refine search by adding background colour, place, museum etc

Pictures photos Images of the Hittite sculptures from the city gate of Sam'al - Zincirli. Neo Syro Hittite. Basalt 8th century BC. Vorderasiatisches Pergamon Museum Berlin. amʼal, also Zincirli Höyük, is an archaeological site located in the Anti-Taurus Mountains of modern Turkey's Gaziantep Province. The site of Samʼal was occupied in the Early Bronze Age (c. 3000-2000BCE), and Middle Bronze Age since c. 2000 until 1650, when it was sacked by Hittite king Hattusili I. Kingdom of Samʼal (in Samalian Yādiya, in Aramaic Ya'udi) was a middle power of the Middle-East in the first half of the 1st millennium BCE. It was near the Nur Mountains. Samʼal was the capital of the country. Royal steles and stone tablets from the period, of Kilamuwa and Panamuwa II, are the main sources for historical data about this timeperiod. It became a middle power at the end of the 10th century BCE. It had expanded from being a city state and gained territories from Carchemish, around Adana from Quwê and remained independent. READ THE HISTORY OF THE HITTITES AT : https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/p/hittites-history Visit our HITTITE PHOTO COLLECTIONS for more photos to download or buy as wall art prints https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/The-Hittites-Art-Artefacts-Antiquities-Historic-Sites-Pictures-Images-of/C0000NUBSMhSc3Oo Add photos of Hittite Art from Vorderasiatisches Pergamon Museum using ADD TO CART button as royalty free download or prints or, if you prefer, download from our ALAMY STOCK LIBRARY page at https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/paul-williams-funkystock/hittite-art-antiquities.html - Type Berlin into the LOWER SEARCH WITHIN GALLERY box. Refine search by adding background colour, place, museum etc

Pictures photos images of the Bronze Age artefacts and antiquities from Kültepe Kanesh held at the Museum of Anatolian Civilisations, Ankara, Turkey. Kültepe Kanesh has been entered onto the tentative list of UNESCo World Heritage Sites. The site of Kültepe, which was the capital of the ancient Kingdom of Kanesh and centre of a complex network of Assyrian trade colonies in the 2nd millennium B.C. An important trading centre between Anatolia and Mesopotamia, Kultepe allowed Assyrian traders to build their own quarter in the city. The Assyrians acted on their own behalf and signed agreements with the King to allow them to trade. The Assyrian traders kept cuneiform records in their houses that have been excavated and give a great insight into the trade of early Bronze Age Kültepe. These Assyrian Trading Colonies imported pottery from Assyria which influenced Anatolian designs. The Assyrian Traders were ejected when Kultepe became a Hittite city but the influence of Assyrian design remained in the new Hittite artworks and artefacts. Amongst the Bronze Age artefacts from Kultepe are many terra cotta vessels in the form of animals, These were ritual vessels used in devotions to the gods they represent. Also amongst the finds are so called "Sandall Vessels". These cult pots were boat shaped with an animal head at the front. Inside some of the vessels are models of temples and goddess. The deities associated with the ritual vessel were associated with trade and transportation in Ancient Mesopotamia and Summerian literature. The vessel signifies a religious river trip. Dopwnload Pictures & images of the Bronze Age artefacts and antiquities from Kültepe Kanesh held at the Museum of Anatolian Civilisations, or buy on line as photo art prints. Add photos of Kultepe Kanesh Bronze Age pottery from Museum of Anatolian Civilisations, using ADD TO CART button as royalty free download or prints or, if you prefer, download from our ALAMY STOCK LIBRARY page at https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/paul-williams-funkystock/kultepe-kanesh-pottery.html READ THE HISTORY OF THE HITTITES AT : https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/p/hittites-history Visit our HITTITE PHOTO COLLECTIONS for more photos to download or buy as wall art prints https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/The-Hittites-Art-Artefacts-Antiquities-Historic-Sites-Pictures-Images-of/C0000NUBSMhSc3Oo

Pictures photos images of the Bronze Age Hattian artefacts and antiquities found in the Royal tombs of Alacahoyuk (Alca Hoyuk, Alaca Höyük, Alacahöyük) held at the Museum of Anatolian Civilisations, Ankara, Turkey. Alaca Hoyuk is oe of the most important Bronze Age sites in Anatolia. The discovery of Bronze Age Royal Tombs with gold, bronze and silver artefacts is one of the biggest in Anatolia. The so called "Sun Disks" of Alacahoyuk are most intriguing objects. Mostly made from bronze some with animal figurines as part of the design, the Sun Disks are thought to be ceremonial standards. They are unlikely to be family standards as more than one deign has been found in the same tomb. Ceremonial statuettes of deer and bulls are also very intriguing. These beautiful pieces of metal work seem to have been used as ceremonial standards. The Royal Tombs of Alaca Hoyuk also yielded fine pieces of gold jewellery, intricate necklaces and finely worked gold bracelets. Add photos of Alaca Hoyuk Hattian Bronze Age Royal Tomb Antiquities using ADD TO CART button as royalty free download or prints or download from our ALAMY STOCK LIBRARY page at : https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/paul-williams-funkystock/royal-tombs-alaca-hoyuk-bronze-age.html . Refine search by adding background colour in the LOWER search box READ THE HISTORY OF THE HITTITES AT : https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/p/hittites-history Visit our ANCIENT WORLD PHOTO COLLECTIONS for more photos to download or buy as wall art prints https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/Ancient-World-Art-Antiquities-Historic-Sites-Pictures-Images-of/C00006u26yqSkDOM

Pictures images photos of the Hittite art rock carvings and sculpture of Hattusa & Yazilikaza. Photos by photographer Paul E Williams. Hattusa was the capital of the Hittite Empire from the 17th century until its fall during the the Bronze Age Collapse in the 12th century BC. Due to its remote location away from the main sites of the Mesopotamian civilisations, the Hittite Empire was completely lost to the Historical record. In 1834 a French explorer called Charles Texier was searching in central Anatolia, Turkey, for a lost celtic city called Tavium and came across the ruins of a vast city with a gate with 2 lion statues, the style of which was unknown to him and was a bewildering mystery. A labyrinth of underground tunnels was excavated housing 5 great libraries, in which 30,000 clay tablets had been carefully catalogued and stored. In Friedrich Hrozny the Hittite cuneiform was deciphered by Friedrich Hrozny and the importance of the Hittite Empire revealed. As well as revealing that the Hittite Empire was as powerful as Ancient Egypt, the tablets revealed the vast pantheon of Hittite Gods. The Hittite Relief sculptures in this Hittite art gallery show the inventive creativity of the Hittite imagination. Gods that are half man half beast are depicted in en endearing style that is typical of Hittite art. Two gates at Hattusa have been reconstructed with copies of their original sculptures. One is the Lion Gate and the other The Sphinx Gate. The main part of this hittite art collection is from the sanctuary of Hattusa, Yazılıkaya. The sanctuary of Yazilikaza is on the edge of Hattusa and carving of deities have been carved into the rocks. READ THE HISTORY OF THE HITTITES AT : https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/p/hittites-history Visit our HITTITE PHOTO COLLECTIONS for more photos to download or buy as wall art prints https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/The-Hittites-Art-Artefacts-Antiquities-Historic-Sites-Pictures-Images-of/C0000NUBSMhSc3Oo Add photos of Hattusa Hittite Sculptures Turkey using ADD TO CART button as royalty free download or prints or download from our ALAMY STOCK LIBRARY page at : https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/paul-williams-funkystock/hattusa-hittite-site-turkey.html