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Tuwarsai
The relief shows a (male?) nanny(?) carrying an infant named Tuwarsai who is identified as "the desired(?) (one) of the ruler, the prince proclaimed for preeminence" (Hawkins, 2000: 129). The basalt relief dates to the early part of the 8th century BCE. Currently in the Anatolian Civilizations Museum in Ankara.
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Literature:
Gilibert, A. Syro-Hittite monumental art and the archaeology of performance, Berlin, 2011. (Carchemish 77)
Hawkins, J. D. Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions, Vol 1, Berlin, 2000: 128–29 and plt. 34–35. (KARKAMIŠ A7j)
Orthmann, W. Untersuchungen zur späthethitischen Kunst, Bonn, 1971. (Karkemis G/7)
Özgen, İ. "Some remarks on a figure from the "Royal Buttress" at Kargamış," FsTÖzgüç, 1989: 373–76.
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Tayfun Bilgin, 2014.