Adana Museum - Hittite Section - May 2017
I find Adana Museum very attractive. It takes you on a journey through the ages in Cilicia, providing lots of solid information and spectacular artefacts. I have visited the museum several times since it opened at its new location in May 2017. I especially like the Hittite exhibition with the statue of Tarhunt (the god of storm/weather) from the 8th century BC. The statue carries a bilingual text in Hieroglyphic Luwian and Phoenician. The former was the common language of the Hittite world, and the latter spread across the Mediterranean thanks to Phoenician merchants and its easy alphabetical written form. The inscription, known to academics as the Çineköy inscription, is significant. It has proved the word 'Syria' is synonymous with 'Assyria', ending more than a century of debate.
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| Adana Museum, May 2017 * |
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| Visual and sound effects at entrance * |
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Star of museum - Tarhunt
or Tarhunza (8th c. BC) * |
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| Clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform* |
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| Men were generally scribes * |
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| Some historical facts * |
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| Hittite lion, 8th cent. BC * |
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| Stone figure * |
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| Basalt stelae * |
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One more *
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Wider plan *
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| Interesting artefact * |
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| November 2017 * |
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| Close-up (turkishmuseums.com) * |
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| Museum from above (turkishmuseums.com) * |
