Decorated Hittite four-handled vase, Turkiye, mid-17th century BCE

Bonus #PleiadesGazetteer #SneakPeek for a new place resource for the #Hittite Karabel Reliefs with #Luwian inscriptions on mount Nif, east of modern Smyrna. Grateful shout-outs to Pleiades contributors @nehemie (whose 2025 article "Metamorphoses of a Monument" in the European Journal of Archaeology provided valuable info and has been encoded as a reference in the resource) and @diffendale (whose 2013 photos of the surviving relief on Flickr are now tagged and showing up in the Pleiades "photos" portlet on that page).

#ancientGeography #ancientHistory #archaeology #DH #gazetteers #HGIS

La pierre verte de Hattusa : le cube sacré, énigme antique d’un empire perdu
https://2tout2rien.fr/pierre-verte-de-hattusa-hittites-turquie/
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#antique #antiquité #hittite #pierre #religion #rocher #Turquie