I have so many pictures of this object (in differing light and with differing corrections) I decided to put all pictures in one galley, as a sub-gallery of the Anatolian museum.

Inandık is situated about 100 km northwest of Hatuşa/Boğazköy. This settlement mount was occupied from the EBA to the Iron Age and yielded substantial layers from the Old Hittite period (16th century BC). A few hundred meters to the west of the site proper, a large multi-roomed building complex was found sitting on a ridge. Destroyed in a violent conflagration, a unique Old Hittite cult inventory was preserved in its ruins. It consisted of many vessels of superb make, among them the famous ‘Inandık vase’ with relief depiction of cult scenes.

Correspondent: J.M.Criel, Antwerpen
Source: ‘The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia’- 2011.