Author : Robert L. Alexander
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874132793
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (327 download)
Book Synopsis The Sculpture and Sculptors of Yaz?l?kaya by : Robert L. Alexander
Download or read book The Sculpture and Sculptors of Yaz?l?kaya written by Robert L. Alexander and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About 100 miles east of the modern Turkish capital. Ankara, the Hittites created their largest surviving sanctuary within the group of huge, outcropping rocks known as Yazilikaya. About 90 figures of deities from the sanctuary still survive after some 35 centuries. This book is the first to present a stylistic study and establish a relative chronology for all the reliefs of Yazilikaya.