III. The Hittites
Ancient Anatolia Between the Mediterranean
and the Black Sea
DU1701 Periods of Art History I
Kingdom of Hattusa, ca. 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, ca. 1200 BCE
Yazılıkaya
Anunnaki – Gods of the Underworld?
Rock carving depicting the god
Sharuma and the King Tudhaliya IV
ca. 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 or Teshub, Aleppo
Museum, Syria
Jupiter Dolichenus, Roman empire, 1st half of the 3rd
century BCE, found in Austria
Wien, Kunsthistorisches Museum
Votive triangle from Nida
(Frankfurt a.M.) with
Jupiter Dolichenus
Vessel, silver, gold inlay, 18 cm
height, ca. 14th–13th century
BCE / Metropolitan Museum,
New York
Vessel, Hittite New Kingdom, reign of Tudhaliya
III, 14th century BCE
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston