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15-May-2018

Ceremonial bronze Standard

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This one is from Alacahöyük, second half of the third millennium BC. All of these have been found in tombs.

A male deer and two bulls. From the Hatti-culture, c. 2300-2100 BC.

The Hattians were an ancient people who inhabited the ‘Land of Hatti’ (present-day central Anatolia). The group was documented at least as early as the empire of Sargon of Akkad (c. 2300 BC). The Hattians were organised in city-states and small kingdoms or principalities. These cities were well organized and ruled as theocratic principalities, until they were gradually absorbed c.2000–1700 BC by the Indo-European Hittites. The latter became identified with the ‘Land of Hatti’, although they had nothing in common with their precursors, neither ethnographically nor linguistically.

Correspondent: J.M.Criel, Antwerpen.
Sources: ‘Museum of Anatolian Civilisations’ (catalogue) & Wikipedia.


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