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p. 123 23. See E. Akurgal, Spathethitischc Bildkunst, 42, Thk k rU, . 1 •
figures 27-9. 4 3. V s , s t,lc usuaI interpretation. Gutcrbock r
24. This fashion is also followed in the only “d"VZT’ 08 the
Semitic Lanvuaocs, LVin (1041) 2,,_„5 J rllI 9j' 11 ^arguments arc impressive, but
KT / {■ ’ V , f“5 3 thc> lcavc unexplained that the alleged cod alone
■ . N° C hoW "luch lcf dlsturbmg the same among all the divine figures, should bdndLinguish-
juxtaposmou is in plate 97, for instance. able in dress and attributes from a Hittitc kiifg
p. 124 27 Another bronze figure, said to be found at 31. That this was, in fact, the proper explanation
Boghazkcuy, is of an earlier age: O. Weber, Die of the relief was first seen by G. R. Lew who in r *-
™nst iCr Hct!"tcrr (°rbis Pictus 9), plate i; K. Bittcl, The Sword from the Rock (London, 1952), gives a
Bogazkoy, Kleinfunde dcr Grabungen, 1906-12, plate i, full discussion of Hittitc religion. While I am more
1 and page 4. It is a peripheral work of Mesopo- doubtful than the author about the relevance of
tamian appearance, hardly a Hittitc work. It shows Mesopotamian conceptions and usages to Hittitc
a bearded man with short hair and a Mesopotamian religion, I found that the book throws much light
shawl tied round the waist and flung over the left on Yasilikaya.
shoulder. The eyes were inlaid. It is probably dated 32. E. dc Sarzee, Deliveries cn Chaldee, plate 61
correctly by Moortgat and Bittcl to about 2000 bis, no. 2.
b.c., or a little later. One would be inclined to 33. A. Goetze, Kleinasicn, in Iwan von Muller- r 12
i of the body as a flat strip of metal, bent forward vi (1951), 115-23, regards the assembly of gods in
connect it with the Mesopotamian trading colonics W. Otto, Handbuch dcr Altcrtumswissenschafi, in,
in Cappadocia. It shares, however, with the later
I, 3-
Syrian figures (Plate 44) the primitive modelling
34. E. Laroche, in Journal of Cuneiform Studies,
below the waist, and downward at the knees. It is
the main gallery of Yasilikaya as a representation
the dress, coiffure, and beard which induce me to
of the Hittite pantheon as established by Tudhaliyas
assign to it an earlier date, since they would be IV, after a great number of Hurrian deities had been
inexplicable after the middle of the second milieu- introduced under the influence of his mother
nium B.c. An ivory figurine of a naked woman, of puduhcpa, a daughter of a priest from Kizzuwadna,
unknown provenance, has been called Anatolian a rc<r[on to the south-east of Cappadocia. Gutcr-
(E. D. Barnett, in British Museum Quarterly, x, koc£ Siegel aus Bogazkoy, I, 99 ff., has pointed out
1936, 121-3, plate xxxiv). This is possible, but t]iat Hurrian gods had been introduced into the
cannot be proved, much less its affinities to Hittitc imperial pantheon (or native gods had been
art. Influence of archaic Greek sculpture on this identified with Hurrian gods) under Muwatalli,
piece is not entirely excluded. ]atc fo tilc fourteenth century.
28. Published in full in Wisscnschaftliche Vcrdjfent- ^5. This is the view of G. R. Levy, expressed in
lichungcn der Deutschen Orientgesellschaft, no. 61. pflc Sword from the Rock.
See also K. Bittcl, Die Fclsbilder von Yasilikaya 36 K. Bittcl, in Archiv fiir Oricntforschung, xm
(Bamberg, 1934), and John Garstang, The Hittitc j8l_93>’
Empire (London, 1929). In Boghazkdy (Berlin, Antiquaries'Journal, xxx (1950), plate vi.
1935), 46-51, Bittel argues that the sanctuary must ^ ^ ^ literaturc this site appears as
be dated between 1450 and 1230 b.c., and probably 6 *
between 1350 and 1230 b.c. E. Laroche, in Journal ^ _ w- c Un(Icr Seals, plate xxv (f).
of Cuneiform Studies, vi (1951), 121 &, suggests that 39- ’ ' Hiiyfik would not by P. ir
Ac riiefi in ihc main gailcry mm. dam f,.» dm ««• rf *. „bj«. » a
reign of Tudhaliyas IV, about 1230 B.c. J ^ Jt bro]CCI1 at the top and die re-
29. In figure 51 the building to the south-east, rcsemblcs a champagne glass with spread-
which suggests direct access to the small gailcry, But actual mirrors found in the tombs a
must be disregarded. It seems of a different date S ^ havc handles which widen towards
from the other structures, and its character is not J -flic goddess with the mirror is Kupapa.
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