Forgetting an Empire, Creating a New Order: Trajectories of Rock-cut Monuments from Hittite into Post-Hittite Anatolia, and the Afterlife of the âThroneâ of KÄ±zÄ±ldaÄ

Lorenzo dâAlfonso; Matteo Pedrinazzi

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Lorenzo dâAlfonso

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While Hittite rock reliefs marking sacred and strategic places (e.g., springs, caves, ponds, passes, routes etc.) survived to the end of the empire and enjoyed a second life in the context of renewed cultic and ritual activities in classical and Medieval times, we stress the lack of evidence for the reuse and adoption of the Hittite landscape monuments in the Early and Middle Iron Age, that is the immediate period following the fall of the Hittite empire. In the context of this overall lack of evidence of post-Hittite attention to and adoption of Hittite monuments, a noteworthy exception is the rock-cut set of monuments of KÄ±zÄ±ldaÄ, in the Konya Plain. Here an Iron-Age relief of a seated sovereign featuring both Assyrian and local stylistic elements was engraved in the rock of the âThroneââa red, outcrop of volcanic stone in the shape of a chair on the slopes of KÄ±zÄ±ldaÄânext to a set of inscriptions that are dated palaeographically and by mise-en-page to the Late Hittite Empire. The second part of the paper provides a historical context for the iconographic interpretation of this unique rock-carved monument.

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Afterlives of Ancient Rock-cut Monuments in the Near East

Carvings in and out of Time

Series:Â Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, Volume: 123

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Chapter 4 Forgetting an Empire, Creating a New Order: Trajectories of Rock-cut Monuments from Hittite into Post-Hittite Anatolia, and the Afterlife of the âThroneâ of KÄ±zÄ±ldaÄ

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Chapter 4 Forgetting an Empire, Creating a New Order: Trajectories of Rock-cut Monuments from Hittite into Post-Hittite Anatolia, and the Afterlife of the âThroneâ of KÄ±zÄ±ldaÄ