Gavur Kalesi

ancient city, Turkey

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Gavur Kalesi is an archaeological site in Turkey, notable for its rock reliefs from the Syro-Hittite period. These reliefs, dating from the 10th to 8th centuries BCE, are primarily of archaeological interest and are considered inferior in carving to contemporary reliefs from other regions. The site is one of several Syro-Hittite city-states where Hittite culture blended with that of local peoples like the Aramaeans. The art and architecture of this period were a hybrid, influenced by Assyria, Phoenicia, and Egypt.1

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Anatolian art and architecture
Hittite period
…this period elsewhere in Anatolia—Sirkeli, Gâvur Kalesi, and Fraktin, for example—are mainly of archaeological interest. They are inferior in carving to contemporary reliefs and to those of the Iron Age, of which there is a fine example at İvriz Harabesi in the Taurus Mountains, showing a local ruler of the…
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…this period elsewhere in Anatolia—Sirkeli, Gâvur Kalesi, and Fraktin, for example—are mainly of archaeological interest. They are inferior in carving to contemporary reliefs and to those of the Iron Age, of which there is a fine example at İvriz Harabesi in the Taurus Mountains, showing a local ruler of the…
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