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Çağdın Relief

The stele was found in 1931 by Ali Rıza Yalgın near the Çağdın village (now Çaybaşı), which is about 13 km southeast of Gaziantep. In 1937 it was transferred to Adana. The relief is carved on a basalt block, and it is about 1.4 meters in height and 0.63 meters in width. It has a relief of the Storm-God wearing a horned hat and short tunic. The four-sign Hieroglyphic Luwian inscription to the right of the figure reads, “Storm-God of the city of the Storm-God.” What city is meant by "the city of the Storm-God" is unclear. The suggestion to read it as Tarhuntassa remains doubtful due to the geographical distance to the likely location of that city in south-central Anatolia. The stele is dated roughly to the 14th to 13th century BCE. It is currently on display in the Adana Museum.


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K. Bittel, 1976 T. Bilgin, 2017


Literature:
Bittel K. and Schneider A. M. "Archäologische Funde aus der Türkei im Jahre 1939," JDAI 55 1940: 554–96 (566–67 and Fig. 4).
Bossert, H. Th. "Zu den Tafeln V-XVI," Jahrbuch für kleinasiatische Forschung 2 1952-53: 106–12 and plate V–XVI (107-8 and plt. V).
Güterbock, H. G. "Eski ve yeni Eti abideleri - Alte und neue hethitische Denkmäler," GsEdhem, 1947: 48–70.
Hawkins, J. D. "What does the Hittite Storm-God Hold?" Natural Phenomena, 1992: 53–82 (67 ve levha IV).
Hawkins, J. D. Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions, Vol 3, Berlin, 2024: 97–98 and plt. 70.
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Image sources:
Kurt Bittel, Die Hethiter, München, 1976.
Tayfun Bilgin, 2017.