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<< Our Photo Pages >> Sam'al - Ancient Village or Settlement in Turkey

Submitted by AlexHunger on Wednesday, 09 August 2006  Page Views: 10616

Multi-periodSite Name: Sam'al Alternative Name: Samal, Zincirli Höyük
Country: Turkey
NOTE: This site is 0.16 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Osmaniye  Nearest Village: Zincirli
Latitude: 37.101420N  Longitude: 36.678813E
Condition:
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4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
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4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
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3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
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Sam'al Lion Gate Right
Sam'al Lion Gate Right submitted by AlexHunger : Sam'al Gate Lion Right ca 800 BCE. Southern Turkey, near the Syrian border. These Gate gardians are primitive versions of the type used later by the Assyrians. It is thought this one had been reworked from an earlier example. These objects are all located in the Berlin Pergamum Museum. (Vote or comment on this photo)
The city of Sam'al, located in Turkey, is believed to have developed during the late Hittite era, and become part of the Assyrian Empire after the Hittite Empire fell around 1190 BCE. From approximately 900 BCE to 600 BCE, it was the capital of the Sam'al kingdom. The ancient city of Yesemek also belonged to it.

The site was excavated from 1888 to 1902 by a German Oriental Society expedition. They found a heavily fortified teardrop-shaped citadel, which was surrounded by the town and a further perimeter wall. Among the notable objects found at the site are five giant statues of lions stone carved, which apparently guarded the gates of the city, but were apparently buried together within the citadel. Several of these are in the Berlin Pergamon Museum.
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Sam'al
Sam'al submitted by h_fenton : Sam'al (Sinjerli) - Southern Turkey. Relief Ortostats (Basalt) from the south gate of the city. Late Hittite period, 9th Century BCE. On the left is a hunter, in the centre a deer (with an arrow through its neck) with a dog and on the right there is a deer at the top and a lion at the bottom. these are in Istanbul Archaeological Museum. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Sam'al
Sam'al submitted by durhamnature : Old drawing from "History of Art in Sardinia..." via archive,org Site in Turkey (Vote or comment on this photo)

Sam'al Double Sphynx Column Base
Sam'al Double Sphynx Column Base submitted by AlexHunger : Sam'al Double Sphinx Column Base ca 800 BCE. Southern Turkey, near the Syrian border. The Sam'al people created these enormous column bases, though none of the actual columns have been preserved in the Berlin Pergamon Museum. There is an other one just like it in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Sam'al
Sam'al submitted by durhamnature : Old drawing of the city, from "History of Egypt...." via archive,org Site in Turkey (Vote or comment on this photo)

Sam'al
Sam'al submitted by h_fenton : Basalt double sphinx column base from the entrance of Palace III. Late Hittite Period (Aramaean) - 8th century BCE. This Column Base is in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum, there is another one very similar in design in the Berlin Pergamon museum.

Sam'al
Sam'al submitted by AlexHunger : Sam'al Stele of King Asarhaddon in the Pergamon Museum, Berlin.

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Re: Iron Age Monument to the Soul Discovered in Turkey by Runemage on Monday, 12 July 2010
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Sounds like the ingredients for a good yarn, the eternal chamber has been plundered and the stele containing Kuttamuwa's soul is now in the hands of unbelievers....

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Iron Age Monument to the Soul Discovered in Turkey by davidmorgan on Monday, 12 July 2010
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Archaeologists in southeastern Turkey have discovered an Iron Age chiseled stone slab that provides the first written evidence in the region that people believed the soul was separate from the body, University of Chicago researchers announced.

The Neubauer Expedition of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago found the 800-pound basalt stele at Zincirli (pronounced "Zin-jeer-lee"), the site of the ancient city of Sam'al.

The inscription reads in part: "I, Kuttamuwa, servant of Panamuwa, am the one who oversaw the production of this stele for myself while still living. I placed it in an eternal chamber(?) and established a feast at this chamber(?): a bull for [the storm-god] Hadad, ... a ram for [the sun-god] Shamash, ... and a ram for my soul that is in this stele."

"The stele is the first of its kind to be found intact in its original location, enabling scholars to learn about funerary customs and life in the eighth century B.C.," the researchers said. "At the time, vast empires emerged in the ancient Middle East, and cultures such as the Israelites and Phoenicians became part of a vibrant mix."

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