III. The Hittites
Ancient Anatolia Between the Mediterranean
and the Black Sea
DU1701 Periods of Art History I: from Prehistory to Trajan
Adrien Palladino, M.A., Ph.D.
Kingdom of Hattusa, c. 1350–1300 BCE
1274 BCE, Battle of Qadesh
Patera, repoussé gold, 14th–13th
century BCE, Ras Shamra-Ugarit,
acropolis adjacent to the temple of
Baal / Musée du Louvre, Paris
Reflief with hieroglyphic inscriptions,
8th century CE / from Carchemish
Cuneiform tablet with seal, royal decree issued by
the Hittite King Tudhaliya IV, 1238–1215 BCE /
National Museum, Damascus
Ruins of Ḫattuša, today Boğazkale
Alacahöyük,
gateway to the
sacred area
Eflatun Pinar spring-shrine, c. 1200 BCE
Yazılıkaya
Anunnaki – Gods of the Underworld?
Rock carving depicting the god
Sharuma and the King Tudhaliya IV,
around 1250-1220 BCE
Priest-King or Deity, c. 1600 BCE, North
Syria, basalt with bone eyes (left, ancient;
right, restored); overall: 87.6 cm / The
Cleveland Museum of Art
Seated goddess with a child, Hittite Empire, 1,300–1,200 BCE, gold,
4,3 x 1,7 x 1,9 cm / Metropolitan Museum, New York
Neo-Hittite storm god
‘Tarhunzas’, Teshub,
Aleppo museum, Syria
Jupiter Dolichenus, Roman
empire, 1st half of the 3rd
century BCE, found in
Austria / Wien,
Kunsthistorisches Museum
Vessel, silver, gold inlay, 18 cm height, c. 14th–13th
century BCE / Metropolitan Museum, New York
Vessel, Hittite New Kingdom, reign of Tudhaliya III,
14th century BCE / Museum of Fine Arts, Boston