Hittite Rock Reliefs at Yazilikaya (Illustration)

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by Carole Raddato
published on 04 April 2019

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Hittite Rock Reliefs at Yazilikaya — Hittite rock reliefs in Chamber A of the Yazilikaya Hittite Sanctuary (13th century BCE). On the left wall, the relief depicts the meeting between Teshub, the Hurrian god of sky and storm, and Hepat, the mother goddess of the Hurrians. On the right wall, the relief depicts female goddesses in procession.

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Carole Raddato

Carole maintains the popular ancient history photo-blog Following Hadrian, where she travels the world in the footsteps of emperor Hadrian.

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Uploaded by Carole Raddato, published on 04 April 2019 under the following license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike. This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon this content non-commercially, as long as they credit the author and license their new creations under the identical terms. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.

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Raddato, C. (2019, April 04). Hittite Rock Reliefs at Yazilikaya. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/10371/hittite-rock-reliefs-at-yazilikaya/

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Raddato, Carole. "Hittite Rock Reliefs at Yazilikaya." World History Encyclopedia. Last modified April 04, 2019. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/10371/hittite-rock-reliefs-at-yazilikaya/.

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Raddato, Carole. "Hittite Rock Reliefs at Yazilikaya." World History Encyclopedia. World History Encyclopedia, 04 Apr 2019. Web. 13 Apr 2021.

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