Yazilikaya was a altar of Hattusa, the basic city-limits of the Hittite Empire, today in the Corum Province, Turkey.
This was a angelic website for the Hittites active in the adjoining city-limits of Hattusa. A lot of absorbing today are the rock-cut reliefs assuming the gods from the Hittite pantheon. There were aswell shrines congenital adjoining to the rocks. It is believed that New Year’s celebrations took abode at the site. The sanctuaries were acclimated from the fifteenth aeon BC, but a lot of of the bedrock carvings date to the administration of the Hittite kings Tudhaliya IV and Suppiluliuma II in the backward 13th aeon BC.
The west bank of the Big Arcade (room A) is busy with god reliefs while the east bank is busy with reliefs of the goddesses and the abstracts on both walls face the area area the capital arena is and the east and west walls accompany the arctic wall. The gods about accept acicular hats, abbreviate apparel belted at the waist, shoes with chaotic credibility and earrings. Most of them backpack a arced brand or a mace. All of the goddesses abrasion continued skirted apparel and on their active sit annular arch dresses. On the arctic bank area the east and west walls accommodated there are the arch gods, basic the capital scene. Here we see the Mountain God Teshup continuing aloft the air gods, his wife goddess Hepatu and their son Sharruma and a bifold headed eagle. The abatement of King Tuthalia IV is on the east bank and it is the better abatement of the gallery.
The Small Arcade (room B) which has a abstracted access is adequate by winged, bobcat headed and animal bodied bogie placed on both abandon of the entrance. There are twelve gods proceeding appear the appropriate on the west bank of allowance B and the God of Brand and King Tuthalia IV who is beneath the aegis of God Sharruma on the east wall. Besides the able-bodied preserved reliefs, this area has three niches carved into the bedrock which are affected to be acclimated for some ability or the ashes of the Hittite aristocratic familiy.
With all these appearance and the accession of the spaces congenital at the front, Yazilikaya has survived to our times as a Hittite shrine.
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