This is one of the sphinxes guarding the gate at the Alacahöyük Sphinxes Gate. For the site as it is now, with replicas in place, see http://www.pbase.com/dosseman/image/36007077

More than 2 m high. Hittite, 14th century BC.

Correspondent: J.M.Criel, Antwerpen
Source: Website of ‘kulturvarliklari.gov.tr’ .

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.