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4io DOVE GODDESS ON HITTITE RELIEFS
Analogies for Dove Goddess of the Cylinders supplied by Hittite Reliefs.
The above cylinder type illustrating the contemporary dove cult
on the Oriental side, finds specially close analogies with certain Hittite
Fie. 340 a, b. Hittite Reliefs from Marash.
religious reliefs. On that, here reproduced in Fig. 340, a, from Marash,1 the
bird above the lyre held by the seated female figure, both from its general
appearance as well as from the character of its beak, may be fain)
regarded as a dove. It reappears in a more mutilated form on anotnei
slab (Fig. SiO.i) from the same Hittite site. On this the clove is offered by
a long-robed priest to the tiara'd divinity, who holds a mirror. In the foim
1 This and Fig 340, />, are from Humann pero, Recueil dc Travaux, 1S93, p- S7, 1 • >
u. Puchstein, Reisen in Kkinaskn, &*c, Chantre, Mission en Cappadocie,'2l-'%-&'-i ■ ''
Atlas, PL LXVII, 2. A similar relief with too,J. C,3Klans,T/ie land af/AelfM''/" (x9'°^
the bird on the altar occurs at Yarre on the PI. XLVI.I, and p. 151, where he is uncer a
Sang'arius (see T. W. Crowfoot, Exploration about the.bird. In The Syrian Goddess(^ih
in Galaiia eis Halym: J.J-/.S., xix, p. 41, however,he recognizes it (pp. 24, 25) as
Fig. 4). Another was found at Fraktin less a pigeon or clove'. It 1S t0 ^e ° ■ |
(Ferak ed-din, South of the Cappadocian that in that case the Goddess wears a con
Caesarea). See Ramsay and Hogarth, in Mas- cap.
Analogies for Dove Goddess of the Cylinders supplied by Hittite Reliefs.
The above cylinder type illustrating the contemporary dove cult
on the Oriental side, finds specially close analogies with certain Hittite
Fie. 340 a, b. Hittite Reliefs from Marash.
religious reliefs. On that, here reproduced in Fig. 340, a, from Marash,1 the
bird above the lyre held by the seated female figure, both from its general
appearance as well as from the character of its beak, may be fain)
regarded as a dove. It reappears in a more mutilated form on anotnei
slab (Fig. SiO.i) from the same Hittite site. On this the clove is offered by
a long-robed priest to the tiara'd divinity, who holds a mirror. In the foim
1 This and Fig 340, />, are from Humann pero, Recueil dc Travaux, 1S93, p- S7, 1 • >
u. Puchstein, Reisen in Kkinaskn, &*c, Chantre, Mission en Cappadocie,'2l-'%-&'-i ■ ''
Atlas, PL LXVII, 2. A similar relief with too,J. C,3Klans,T/ie land af/AelfM''/" (x9'°^
the bird on the altar occurs at Yarre on the PI. XLVI.I, and p. 151, where he is uncer a
Sang'arius (see T. W. Crowfoot, Exploration about the.bird. In The Syrian Goddess(^ih
in Galaiia eis Halym: J.J-/.S., xix, p. 41, however,he recognizes it (pp. 24, 25) as
Fig. 4). Another was found at Fraktin less a pigeon or clove'. It 1S t0 ^e ° ■ |
(Ferak ed-din, South of the Cappadocian that in that case the Goddess wears a con
Caesarea). See Ramsay and Hogarth, in Mas- cap.