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Unless otherwise stated, this image is the copyright of the submitter. Contact them for permission to reproduce it. |  | | Description | A beautiful carving. Best light for it would be in the morning. |
| Posted Comments: AngieLake
(2008-07-13) | Is this from Zoroastrian religion? It reminds me of their carvings. | davidmorgan
(2008-07-14) | No, it's the Hurrian storm god, Tarhunt, who the Hittites had been worshipping for almost a millennium already. The style looks Assyrian influenced to me. Zoroastrian carving would probably be a few centuries later. | davidmorgan
(2008-07-14) | I've just looked this up - the Neo-Hittite kingdom of Tabal was at this time (8thC BCE) a vassal state of Assyria. | AngieLake
(2008-07-14) | Ah, thanks David. It's just that I thought Zoroastrian religion was the oldest one, and it was a possibility that the Hittites worshipped it - or him - Ahura Mazda, or something, wasn't it? | davidmorgan
(2008-07-14) | There's some debate about Zoroaster's origins, apparently. But I reckon the carvings you're thinking of are from Persepolis in the 5thC BCE:
http://www.bestirantravel.com/sights/shiraz/persepolis_3.html |
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