Later, in the ninth millennium BC, in the Taurus piedmoni and the river valleys of
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- Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek verzeichnet diese Publikation in der Deutschen
- Prof. Maciej Popko, who kindly read through an earlier draft of the manuscri.pt.
- ArOr Archiv Orientalin, Praha
- Fesseur Rene Lebrun. Collection KUBABA, Serie Antiquite VI, Paris 2004
- Fs van Loon O.M.C. Haex - H.H. Curvers - P.M.M.G. Akkermans (eds), To the Euphrates and Be
- Kaskal kaskal, Rivista di storia, ambienti e cuitura del VIcino Oriente antico, Roma
- Syria Syria. Revue d’art oriental et d’archeologie, Paris
- Cording to the do ul des principle - influence their decisions with appropriate gifts,
- As a means and a way of contacting the gods and influencing their decisions. Cel-
- Inging graphic customs; hence it does not contribute to defining historical
- Later, in the ninth millennium BC, in the Taurus piedmoni and the river valleys of
- Cut by strong leveling or egalitarian proeesses, see Kuijt (ed.) 2000 for a full review of the debate.
- Ports. 1 Links with the Levant (Nahal Hemar) are also evidenced by the stone face
- Ahmar on the eastem bank of the Euphrates already on the Syrian side of the modern
- Does not lie, unfortunately, with yet another stela with sehematic facial features in
- Mellaart 1967: 1.08; cf. also Hodder — Cessford 2004: 23f.
- Uniike the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age anthropomorphic figurines which
- Meskell - Nakamura — King - Fand 2008: 144.
- Many structures discovered at Early Bronze Age sites have been interpreted as
- On long necks. The figurines are found usually in houses, also in buildings inter-
- Tion of metal objects, jewelry, weapons, and vessels made from copper, silver, and
- More is known about the beliefs of this period: the origins and names of prominent
- Ed gods of different origin: Luwian, Hittite, Hattian, and perhaps also from a local
- Anna was the main deity of the city of Kanes, 134 appearing next to Assur as
- Divine patron of the king and dynasty, and the second for a deity of Kanes, com-
- On iconographic similarities sfaould be treated with due caution.
- Century BC. 168 These were the kings who bullt the greatness of the Hittite Empire
- Northern Anatolia both grew from the indigenous Hattian tradition. 1t is quite likely,
- Most important States in central Anatolia, encompassing a considerable territory in
- Hittite heartland, e.g. Ankuwa, Tawiniva and Katapa, as well as the chief god of
- Palhuna / Storm-god of Ziplanda with Katahhi / Ulza, Uliw/pasu, Katarzasu / Su-
- God of Ziplanda, Katahhi of Ankuwa, and Teteshapi, whose main cult center was
- And the Hattians. ” In myths, Hapantali appears beside the Luwian goddess Kam-
- Period the goddess’s name was usually written with the logogram LAMMA, see 3.2.1)
- Theon. Some lists of gods mention Mm next to the Storm-god and the Sun-goddess
- Nerik; accordingly, offerir.gs are made to the Storm-god of Nerik, the Sun-goddess of the Earth,
- Century BC, the ceremonial throne Halmasuit was one of the cult objects in the temple
- Geneous, reflecting the ethnic differentiation of the population of the land of Haiti.
- Tral Anatolia dropped the male solar deity under the influence of Hattian beliefe
- Traditionai structure of the local pantheon with a nature goddess at the head to
- At the time also with the logograms NIN.URTA and URAS started being used
- An unpublished text 1320/z which mentions the Storm-god of Ziplanda (obv. 8’, IO 1 ) and Anzili
- To Hattian Katahzipuri, 298 which may suggest that the goddess, who was worshiped
- Ion and the traditions of local cults in central and northern Anatolia did not change
- With war-gods and sometimes also with the deity GAL.ZU. Finde of zoomorphic vessels
- To one text, it was where people gathered during the day and the gods at
- Ready in existence in Old Hittite times. The Hittite names, however, are unknown.
- SANGA-priests. Cf. also Popko 2001a; -328.
- The cult of specific deities. The tazzeli- priest is encountered solely in the cult of Zi-
- Tions. The gods received loaves of bread and specific parts of sacrificial animals (the
the Upper Euphrates and Tigris tributaries (Nevali Qori, 14 Qayönü Tepesi, 1 Cafer
Höyük 16), grew from this local tradition evidenced by the discoveries at Göbekli Tepe.
Very early, Neolithic settlement spread also to the Southern part of the Anato
Lian Plateau as indicated by Pre-Pottery Neolithic material in the oldest layers (IX-
VIII) at Hacilar some 25 km Southwest of Burdur, 1 ' Asjikh Höyük about 25 km south-
East of Aksaray, 18 and in the five earliest Pre-XIIE-A levels at the most famous of
19
Neolithic sites in the region, Qatalhöyük, lying 37 km southeast of Konya. " Later
layers, however, are from the ceramic phase which is dated in Qatalhöyük from the
20 1
beginning of the seventh millennium through c. 6200 to 5900 BC.'
The strong bond between the living and the dead was expressed in burial rites.
The hunters and gatherers from Göbekli Tepe huilt stone structures for their dead
(see below), while in the later Neolithic villages the dead were buried beneath house
Floors, evidently indicating a continued and important presence in the life of their
Schmidt 1998; 2000; 2001; 2004; 2006a; 2006b; cf. also Yildinm - Gates 2007: 282.
Hauptmann 1988; 1991-1992; 1993; 2002; 2007.
16 Gambe! - Braidwood 1983; Özhek 1988; M. Özdogan - A. Özdogan 1990; 1998.
Cauvin et al. 1991. f
Mellaart 1958; 1959a; 1960; 1961; 1970. The Pre-Pottery Neolithic phase at Hacilar is very
Tmcerfcain, however; see Duru 1989, and now Schoop 2005: 174, 178f. For other Pre-Pottery
Neolithic sites in central Anatolia, see Gerard 2002.
Esin et aL 1991; Esin - Harmanakaya 1999. Aeeramic levels dated from c. 8400 to 7400 BC.
Mellaart 1962; 1963a: 1964: 1965; 1986; 1967. Renewed fieidwork began in 1993: Hodder (ed.)
A: 2005b; 2005c; 2007.
20 For absolute dafcing at Qatalhöyük, see Cessford et aL 2005.
Neolithic 9
Descendants. There is archaeological evidenee of funerary rituals and feasts during
the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B of the Levant and southeastern Anatolia. 2 ' 1 Even so, poor
And little diversified grave goods are proof that the Neolithic social ranking process-
Es had not yet taken on momentum. The dead appear to have been treated as
a community of all the ancestors of the village’s inhabitants. At Catalhöyük it was
Observed that the same divisions which existed among the living concemed the dead.
Lan Hodder and Craig Cessford have noted that “different types of people were
Buried beneath certain platforms, that different plasters were used for different plat-
forms.... Because of the burial associations between different types of people and
Different parts of the house, it seems reasonable to assume that different people may
Have sat, eaten, and slept in different parts of the house.” 23
The secondary form of burial, typieal of the period and shared by the early Neo
Lithic cultures of the Near East, must have had its origins in the pre-Neolithic tradition.
The skeleton or just the skull was buried after the excamation, which may have
Taken place outside the village, possibly with the aid of vultures. One of the reliefs
from Göbekli Tepe depicts a headless man who is associated with a bird (vulture?)
Directly to his left. A stone statue of a vulture (?), 50 cm long, was discovered in the
Village of Nevali Qori, which is a few hundred years younger. The tradition appears
To have lasted a few millennia, into the ceramic Neolithic. Murals from house 8 at Qatal
höyük, represented in successive layers VIII and VII, depict vultures tearing apart
Headless bodies. The vultures’ role in. the burial rites must have accorded thern.
Special treatment and they must have been undoubtedly connected with magic symbol-
Ism. It cannot be excluded that these birds had their place in the beliefs of the times.
Cf. Goring-Morris 2000; Verhoeven 2002; Goring-Morris 2005; Goring-Morris -- Kolska Horwitz
With references.
For the Neolithic, there is common acceptance of some degree of social ranking, if ofteil cross-
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