New Excavations at Zincirli Höyük in Turkey (Ancient Samʾal) and the Discovery of an Inscribed Mortuary Stele
The Iron Age royal citadel and fortifications of Samʾal (modern Zincirli Höyük) were excavated from 1888 to 1902, yielding an impressive assortment of monumental architecture, Neo-Hittite sculpture, and royal inscriptions. New excavations by the University of Chicago were initiated in 2006 to explor...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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The University of Chicago Press
2009
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Bulletin of ASOR
Year: 2009, Volume: 356, Pages: 1-13 |
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| Summary: | The Iron Age royal citadel and fortifications of Samʾal (modern Zincirli Höyük) were excavated from 1888 to 1902, yielding an impressive assortment of monumental architecture, Neo-Hittite sculpture, and royal inscriptions. New excavations by the University of Chicago were initiated in 2006 to explore the large lower town. Three thousand square meters have been opened to date, exposing remains from the seventh century B.C., when Samʾal was a directly governed province of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, and from the late eighth century B.C., when Samʾal was still ruled by kings of the native dynasty. A major discovery is an inscribed mortuary stele of an eighth-century royal official with a Luwian name, whose "soul" is said to be in the stele, shedding light on religious belief and practice in a milieu characterized by the mixing of Anatolian and West Semitic traditions. |
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| ISSN: | 2161-8062 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American Schools of Oriental Research, Bulletin of ASOR
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1086/BASOR25609345 |