The Relief of Harput-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

The Relief of Harput

Published:2021-06-08 Issue:1 Volume:48 Page:1-25
ISSN:2196-6761
Container-title:Altorientalische Forschungen
language:en
Short-container-title:

Author:

Abay Eşref¹,Demir Bülent²,Sevin Veli³

Affiliation:

1. Ege University , Department of Near Eastern Archaeology , Gençlik Caddesi No:12, 35040 Bornova , İzmir , Turkey Turkey

2. Malatya Museum, Malatya, Turkey Turkey

3. professor emeritus, İstanbul University , İstanbul , Turkey Turkey

Abstract

Abstract In the spring of 2016 a unique stone slab carved in relief was accidentally discovered on Kurey Tepesi near Harput/Elazığ in eastern Turkey. The relief depicts the capture of a heavily fortified city in horizontally arranged registers. At first sight it comes to recognition that the Harput Relief stands in the tradition of Mesopotamian victory steles, starting with the Eannatum Stele (Stele of Vultures) in Early Dynastic Sumer (c. 2900–2350 BC) and continuing with the kings of Akkad (c. 2350–2150 BC). From a stylistic and iconographic point of view, the relief seems closer to the victory stele of Daduša of Ešnunna and the Mardin Stele of the early Old Babylonian period (c. 2000–1600 BC). The subsequently excavated archaeological context, a heavily burned architectural layer, contained Middle Bronze Age I pottery typical of the Elazığ-Malatya region, corroborating a date in the early second millennium BC.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Linguistics and Language,History,Language and Linguistics,Cultural Studies

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/aofo-2021-0001/pdf

Reference42 articles.

1. Amiet, P. (1993): Rayonnement mesopotamien et originalité syrienne: à propos de quelques sceaux-cylinderes du Louvre. In: M. Frangipane/P. Matthiae/M. Mellink (ed.), Between the Rivers and over the Mountains: Archaeologica Anatolia et Mesopotamica Alba Palmieri Dedicata, Rome, 261–268.

2. Balkan, K. (1957): Mama Kralı Anum-Hirbi’nin Kanis Kralı Warsama’ya Gönderdiği Mektup, Türk Tarih Kurumu, Ankara.

3. Barjamovic, G. (2011): A Historical Geography of Anatolia in the Old Assyrian Colony Period (CNIP 38), Copenhagen.

4. Beitzel, B.J. (1992): The Old Assyrian Caravan Road in the Mari Royal Archives: Mari in Retrospect. In: G.D. Young (ed.), Fifty Years of Mari and Mari Studies, Winona Lake, IN, 35–59.

5. Bellis, M. (XXX 2020): The History of the Hand Grenade, ThoughtCo, 29 Jan 2020, thoughtco.com/history-of-the-hand-grenade-1991668. XXX updated October 04, 2019; accessed in June 2020.