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Šamuḫa is an ancient Bronze Age settlement near the village of Kayalıpınar, Yıldızeli, c. 40 km west of Sivas, in the Sivas Province of Turkey.Located on the northern bank of Kizil Irmak river, it was a city of the Hittites, a religious centre and, for a few years, a military capital for the empire.
The geography of the Hittite Empire is inferred from Hittite texts on the one hand, and from archaeological excavation on the other. Matching philology to archaeology is a difficult and ongoing task, and so far, only a handful of sites are identified with their ancient name with certainty.
The Hittite rock relief Fıraktın relief (or Fraktın) is located roughly 50 km south of Kayseri in the province of the same name in southern Turkey, at Fıraktın on the bank of the Enzel Dere, a tributary of the Zamantı Irmağı. Strabo called the place Dastarkon. Rock reliefs are a prominent aspect of Hittite art.
A block of nephrite, a dark green mineral form of jade which is common in the region, and dressed into the form of a cube, about 27 inches (69 cm) per side and weighing about 2,200 pounds (1000 kg), [5] the Green Stone is supposed to have had some religious use or purpose, but what it may have been is unknown. [1]
In Hittite sources, they might instead appear alongside the Sun goddess of the Earth, [24] who was identified with her. [15] In the Hurrian ritual text KBo 17.94, the primeval deities are associated with Išḫara. [25] Presumably the connection reflects this goddess’ own ties to the underworld and the deceased. [26]
Sapinuwa (sometimes Shapinuwa; Hittite: Šapinuwa) was a Bronze Age Hittite city at the location of modern Ortaköy in the province Çorum in Turkey about 70 kilometers east of the Hittite capital of Hattusa. It was one of the major Hittite religious and administrative centres, a military base and an occasional residence of several Hittite kings.
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The Hittite Sun Disc Monument (Turkish: Hitit Güneş Kursu Anıtı) is a memorial dedicated to Hittites created by sculptor Nusret Suman and placed in Sıhhiye Square, Ankara, Turkey, in 1978. [ 1 ] History