Tell tayinat
King suppiluliuma
Iron age temple
Tell Tayinat (Tour. Tell Tayinat ) is an ancient lowland barrow on the eastern shore in the bend of the Oront River , in Hatay province of present southeastern Turkey, 25 kilometers from Antakya . The area is located 800 meters from Tell Atchana , on the site of the ancient city of Alalakh or Kunulua , which was the capital of the Neochetian state of Unka . Perhaps identical to the city of Halne or Calneh, mentioned in scripture.
The influence of the Kuro-Arak culture (4000 - 2200 BC) reached Tell Taynat.
The remains of an ancient temple erected in about 10-9 centuries BC. The temple was discovered by a group of Canadian archaeologists. A fragment of a stele with hieroglyphs in the Luvian language was also found [1] .
Literature
- AK Grayson, Assyrian Rulers of the Early First Millennium BC, vol. I: 1991: 217f, quoted in Robin Lane Fox, Traveling Heroes in the Epic Age of Homer, 2008: 94.