The divine procession panel, digitally highlighted in black, found in the underground complex in Başbük, Turkey.Image credit: M. Önal, C. Uludağ, Y. Koyuncu; Antiquity Publications Ltd
Posted on 05/16/2022 6:03:15 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
A bungled looting scheme has led archaeologists to an underground Iron Age complex in Turkey that may have been used by a fertility cult during the first millennium B.C., a new study finds.
The ancient complex, which has yet to be fully investigated due to the instability of the structure, has rare rock art drawings on its walls featuring a procession of deities depicted in an Assyrian style. This art style appears to have been adapted by local groups, indicating how strongly the culture of the Neo-Assyrian Empire — which hailed from Mesopotamia and later expanded into Anatolia — spread to the people it conquered in this region, according to the new study, published online May 11 in the journal Antiquity...
"The finding bears witness to the exercise of Assyrian hegemony in the region in its early phases," one of the study's authors Selim Ferruh Adalı, an associate professor of ancient history at the Social Sciences University of Ankara, told Live Science in an email. "The wall panel contains a depiction of divine procession with previously unknown elements, with Aramaic writing to describe some of the deities while combining Neo-Assyrian, Aramaean and Syro-Anatolian divine iconography."
Authorities learned about the ancient underground complex in 2017, after looters discovered it beneath a house in a Turkish village and decided to target its treasures. However, police foiled the looters...
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The divine procession panel, digitally highlighted in black, found in the underground complex in Başbük, Turkey.Image credit: M. Önal, C. Uludağ, Y. Koyuncu; Antiquity Publications Ltd
I thought you took the Marks-A-Lot away from the kids??
*sheesh*
‘Face
;o]
Fertility cults were just organized pagan sex romps. Pagans worship nature and sex is a “magical” part of that.
Same stuff goes on today, e.g., Epstein & Clinton.
Just like back then, the pagans of today hate monotheistic religious folks (only God is above man, not nature) because they preach to temper those impulses for the benefit of a civilized humanity.
Fertility cult?? Would that be like a red light district??
Really interesting. Thank you!
My pleasure.
Can’t catch ‘em anymore, they move too fast!
Since I’ve lived in Turkey before, I’ll wager it is a brothel.
Some things change, some stay the same.
Down in “the Horn.”
5.56mm
:^)
Not too surprising I guess; an Assyrian cult brought in by the Mittani (from NW Assyria) when they took over from the Hittites?
Nope. The "Neo-Assyrian Empire" refers to a resurgence of Assyrian power; the earlier Akkadian period ended in some kind of disaster, but there were various Assyrian city-states ruling local areas. The "Curse of Agade" keyword should turn up a bunch of topics about the fall of the Akkadian Empire.
The conventional pseudochronology separates Mitanni from their later, actual identity, that of the Medes. The Hittites were an ethnic group, but they never had a "forgotten empire" -- they were under foreign rule, the Babylonians, and likewise separated from their actual time.
That would be my take, too-today, discreetly purchased sexual favors are called “sex therapy”-or maybe “escort services”-in Iron Age Turkey they apparently called it a “fertility cult”...
Someone talked. If it's under my house, isn't it MINE? Shovel, strip, sell and shut up!
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