Some Observations on The Karatepe Sculptures (İngilizce Özet)

Year 1949, Volume: 13 Issue: 49, 35 - 36, 20.01.1949

Halet Çambel

Abstract

The most important and interesting building complexes uncovered at Karatepe up to now, are doubtless the two gateway buildings, which are lined with sculptured slabs, bearing reliefs and inscriptions. Next to the inscriptions in Old-Phoenician and Hittite hieroglyphic script, which, according to the latest studies of H. Th. Bossert and Fr. Steinherr constitute a bilinguis of the time around 730 B. C., the sculptured works may be said to be of capital importance. They offer in respect to technique, conception, disposition and style, in regard to the scenes depicted, the information offered and the foreign elements disclosed such a great variety of aspects, that they deserve extensive and detailed analysis

Keywords

Hittite Hieroglyphics, H. Th. Bossert, Anatolia, Mesopotamian-Assyrian