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Function of the double-headed eagle at Yazilikaya
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- Chariton, Jesse ... eaded Eagle Yazilikaya.pdf (726.4Kb PDF)
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- Date
- May 2008
- Subject(s)
- Yazilikaya Site (Turkey) -- Antiquities; Relief (Sculpture), Hittite -- Turkey -- Yazilikaya Site; Hittites
- Abstract
- Very little research has been done on the symbolic use of the double-headed eagle motif B.C.E. This paper treats the double-headed eagle relief at the Hittite site of Yazilikaya, located in central present-day Turkey. Occupied in the second millennium B.C.E., this site was a religious and ceremonial center of the Hittite Empire. Comparison of the use of the double-headed eagle at this and other sites in the area hints at the function of the motif in that context.
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