The relief of Harput: A new page in the art history of ancient anatolia

Basit Öğe Kaydı
dc.authorscopusid53983654200
dc.authorscopusid57224823708
dc.authorscopusid6504576200
dc.contributor.authorAbay E.
dc.contributor.authorDemir B.
dc.contributor.authorSevin V.
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-12T20:23:49Z
dc.date.available2023-01-12T20:23:49Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.departmentN/A/Departmenten_US
dc.description.abstractIn the spring of 2016 a unique stone slab carved in relief was accidentally discovered on Kurey Tepesi near Harput/Elazi? in eastern Turkey. The relief depicts the capture of a heavily fortified city in horizontally arranged registers. At first sight it comes to recognition that the Harput Relief stands in the tradition of Mesopotamian victory steles, starting with the Eannatum Stele (Stele of Vultures) in Early Dynastic Sumer (c. 2900-2350 BC) and continuing with the kings of Akkad (c. 2350-2150 BC). From a stylistic and iconographic point of view, the relief seems closer to the victory stele of Daduša of Ešnunna and the Mardin Stele of the early Old Babylonian period (c. 2000-1600 BC). The subsequently excavated archaeological context, a heavily burned architectural layer, contained Middle Bronze Age I pottery typical of the Elazl?-Malatya region, corroborating a date in the early second millennium BC. © 2021 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThe Elazığ Museum Directorate declared Kurey Tepesi a protected area and started rescue excavations there. With the permission of the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage and Museums of the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism and with the financial support of the governorship of Elazığ and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, excavations lasting five months were initiated. Although no other reliefs were found during the excavations, architectural remains and other archaeological finds have shown that there was a settlement on Kurey Tepesi. This article aims to further explore and evaluate the Harput Relief, a very important and unique find in terms of Near Eastern archeology for stylistic and iconographic reasons. After an account of the rescue excavations, it provides a detailed description of the relief and then discusses its iconography and style as well as its chronological and historical context as far as the limited data allow.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1515/aofo-2021-0001
dc.identifier.endpage25en_US
dc.identifier.issn02328461
dc.identifier.issn0232-8461en_US
dc.identifier.issue1en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85108328910en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ2en_US
dc.identifier.startpage1en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1515/aofo-2021-0001
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11454/79775
dc.identifier.volume48en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherDe Gruyter Open Ltden_US
dc.relation.ispartofAltorientalische Forschungenen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryDiğeren_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectHarput reliefen_US
dc.subjectMesopotamian arten_US
dc.subjectMiddle bronze ageen_US
dc.subjectWar imageryen_US
dc.titleThe relief of Harput: A new page in the art history of ancient anatoliaen_US
dc.typeReviewen_US

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