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23-SEP-2004

Alacahöyük musicians

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These are musicians at the offering scene in the Alacahöyük Sphinxes Gate. For the relief in total at the site see http://www.pbase.com/dosseman/image/36007079

The figure on the right is carrying an animal (a dog or a monkey?). Possibly a ‘dancing’ animal.
Height: 117 cm. Hittite, 14th century BC.

Correspondent: J.M.Criel, Antwerpen
Source: ‘The Hittites’ (J.G.Macqueen) 1996.

A study in the mid 1990s, supervised by Dr. Hatçe Baltacıoğlu of the Ankara Archaeological Museum, employing stratigraphic data as well as style critique, dates the sculptures of the Sphynxes Gate to the reign of Muwatalli (1306-1282 BC).

Source: Website of ‘anadolumedeniyetlerimuzesi.gov.tr’ – Annual report 1996.

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