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19-JUN-2011

Ankara june 2011 6887.jpg

Kubaba is carrying a pommegranate and has a horn on the forehead.

This relief has been reconstructed from an upper part fragment (the darker left upper corner); the lower part was shaped similar to another fragment in the museum, showing the lower half of the standing goddess. The mirror in her left hand was added accordingly to other known neo-Hittite representations of the goddess standing. (Source: Website of ‘hittitemonuments.com’).

From Enc. Britt. Kubaba: goddess of the ancient Syrian city of Carchemish. In religious texts of the Hittite empire (c. 1400–c. 1190 BC), she played a minor part and appeared mainly in a context of Hurrian deities and rituals. After the downfall of the empire her cult spread westward and northward, and she became the chief goddess of the successor kingdoms (the neo-Hittite states) from Cilicia to the Halys River.

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