A beautiful and colossal human sculpture is one of the latest cultural treasures unearthed by an international team at the Tayinat Archaeological Project (TAP) excavation site in southeastern Turkey. A large semi-circular column base, ornately decorated on one side, was also discovered. Both pieces are from a monumental gate complex that provided access to the upper citadel of Kunulua, capital of the Neo-Hittite Kingdom of Patina (ca. 1000-738 BC).
“These newly discovered Tayinat sculptures are the product of a vibrant local Neo-Hittite sculptural tradition,” said Professor Tim Harrison, the Tayinat Project director and professor of Near Eastern Archaeology in the University of Toronto’s Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations. “They provide a vivid glimpse into the innovative character and sophistication of the Iron Age cultures that emerged in the eastern Mediterranean following the collapse of the great imperial powers of the Bronze Age at the end of the second millennium BC.”
— The head and torso of the human figure, intact to just above its waist, stands approximately 1.5 meters in height, suggesting a total body length of 3.5 to four meters
The head and torso of the human figure, intact to just above its waist, stands approximately 1.5 metres in height, suggesting a total body length of 3.5 to four metres. The figure’s face is bearded, with beautifully preserved inlaid eyes made of white and black stone, and its hair has been coiffed in an elaborate series of curls aligned in linear rows. Both arms are extended forward from the elbow, each with two arm bracelets decorated with lion heads. The figure’s right hand holds a spear, and in its left is a shaft of wheat. A crescent-shaped pectoral adorns its chest. A lengthy Hieroglyphic Luwian inscription, carved in raised relief across its back, records the campaigns and accomplishments of Suppiluliuma, likely the same Patinean king who faced a Neo-Assyrian onslaught of Shalmaneser III as part of a Syrian-Hittite coalition in 858 BC.
The second sculpture is a large semi-circular column base, approximately one metre in height and 90 centimetres in diameter, lying on its side next to the human figure. A winged bull is carved on the front of the column and it is flanked by a sphinx on its left. The right side of the column is flat and undecorated, an indication that it originally stood against a wall.
“The two pieces appear to have been ritually buried in the paved stone surface of the central passageway through the Tayinat gate complex,” said Harrison. The complex would have provided a monumental ceremonial approach to the upper citadel of the royal city. Tayinat, a large low-lying mound, is located 35 kilometres east of Antakya (ancient Antioch) along the Antakya-Aleppo road.
— The head and torso of the human figure, intact to just above its waist, stands approximately 1.5 meters in height, suggesting a total body length of 3.5 to four meters….
The presence of colossal human statues, often astride lions or sphinxes, in the citadel gateways of the Neo-Hittite royal cities of Iron Age Syro-Anatolia continued a Bronze Age Hittite tradition that accentuated their symbolic role as boundary zones, and the role of the king as the divinely appointed guardian or gate keeper of the community. By the ninth and eighth centuries BC, these elaborately decorated gateways, with their ornately carved reliefs, had come to serve as dynastic parades, legitimizing the power of the ruling elite. The gate reliefs also formed linear narratives, guiding their audiences between the human and divine realms, with the king serving as the link between the two worlds.
The Tayinat gate complex appears to have been destroyed following the Assyrian conquest of the region in 738 BC, when the area was paved over and converted into the central courtyard of an Assyrian sacred precinct. These smashed and deposited monumental sculptures also include a magnificently carved lion that was discovered last year and Hieroglyphic Luwian-inscribed stelae (stone slabs or pillars used for commemoratives purposes). Together these finds hint of an earlier Neo-Hittite complex that might have once faced the gateway approach.
Scholars have long speculated that the reference to Calno, identified as one of the “kingdoms of the idols” in Isaiah’s oracle against Assyria (Isaiah 10:9-10), alludes to the Assyrian devastation of Kunulua (i.e., Tayinat). The destruction of the Luwian monuments and conversion of the area into an Assyrian religious complex may represent the physical manifestation of this historic event, subsequently memorialized in Isaiah’s oracle.
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Let us see the loons pull a Black person out of this one lmao!!! Archaeology alone debunks their idiocy.
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quote:Originally posted by Crush Black Lies: Let us see the loons pull a Black person out of this one lmao!!! Archaeology alone debunks their idiocy.
MK - modern Albinos don't seem to be able to recognize their own kind. Is this attributable to poor eyesight due to melanin deprivation, or are they just stupid as hell?
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You do know there are blacks in Greece and in Turkiye that no one seems to know where they came from, right?
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I am not sure what your response has to do with what I stated. Can you clarify using non sophomoric terminology to express yourself?
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quote:Originally posted by Crush Black Lies: Then you are a bigger fool if you are unaware of Negro enslavement in the Ottoman Empire. Educate yourself, fool. Wikipedia is your friend.
Definition of MAMLUK 1 : a member of a politically powerful Egyptian military class occupying the sultanate from 1250 to 1517 2 often not capitalized : a white or east Asian slave in Muslim countries.
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A quote from the wiki source I provided, Mike:
"Circassians, Syrians and Nubians were the three primary races of females who were sold as sex slaves in the Ottoman Empire. Circassian girls were described as fair, light skinned and were frequently sent by the Circassian leaders as gifts to the Ottomans. They were the most expensive, reaching up to 500 pounds sterling and the most popular with the Turks. Second in popularity were Syrian girls, with their dark eyes, dark hair, and light brown skin, and came largely from coastal regions in Anatolia. Their price could reach up to 30 pounds sterling. They were described as having "good figures when young". Nubian girls were the cheapest and least popular, fetching up to 20 pounds sterling.[22] Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries..."
The Ottoman Empire, or Turkish Empire, was a Turkish empire which lasted 623 years, from 27 July 1299 to 1 November 1922, when the monarchy was abolished.
Mamluk White warrior slave common in Muslim states from around the 9th century until the 19th century. "Mamluk" is Arabic for white slave, and the word is related to the word for king, "malik", indicating that a Mamluk was a slave owned by the ruler of a state. Mamluks were slaves that were meant to form a solid foundation for the ruler of a country.
(Mamluks overthrew the Arabs in Egypt circa 1250)
EVERYONE PLEASE NOTE THE DATE GIVEN FOR THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE BY WIKI ABOVE.
Actually the Ottoman Empire could not have begun before 29 May 1453, because that is the date when the Eastern Roman Empire (the Byzantine Empire) NOW TURKEY: was defeated and sacked by Turkish Sultan Mehmed's army.
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Damn facts, you're even stupider than Crush Black Lies, at least he had sense enough to back off.
You little Albino twit, you still don't get it do you.
But I know why, the lack of melanin in your brain makes it impossible for you to keep things in chronological order, therefore you are always confused.
Here, let me try again:
The first Europeans were Blacks. Those in the East, had to pass through Turkey to get to Europe.
Some liked it in Turkey and they stayed there.
NOW DO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW BLACKS CAME INTO TURKEY?
Then I explained to you how the Turks came into Turkey. But by now that has gone out of your melanin deprived brain, so lets just stick with how Blacks came to be in Turkey.
Whenever you melanin deprived brain needs a refresher, just ask me, no need to make a fool of yourself.
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The Turkish statue is a black person statue because the statue have a wooly/curly hair and a wooly/curly beard and a deep black color eyes .Those are the characteristics of the black race .
quote:Originally posted by mena7: The Turkish statue is a black person statue because the statue have a wooly/curly hair and a wooly/curly beard and a deep black color eyes .Those are the characteristics of the black race .
So I take it that you are saying that these are NOT Black?
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They are black .The first and third one have wooly hair and beard .The second and fourth one have wooly hair and beard .They also have large nose .But I see your point Mike wooly hair and beard are not the only characteristic of the black race because the Tebu ,Touareg,some Ethiopian,Somalian,Dravidian and Australian aborigene have straight long hair .
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lmao! yall a blast! You have created an alternate reality right here on Egyptsearch where you can claim everybody and 'they mama' black! lmao!!!
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quote:Originally posted by facts: lmao! yall a blast! You have created an alternate reality right here on Egyptsearch where you can claim everybody and 'they mama' black! lmao!!!
facts - you have already demonstrated your stupidity, please do not burden us further with it.
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quote:Originally posted by mena7: They are black .The first and third one have wooly hair and beard .The second and fourth one have wooly hair and beard .They also have large nose .But I see your point Mike wooly hair and beard are not the only characteristic of the black race because the Tebu ,Touareg,some Ethiopian,Somalian,Dravidian and Australian aborigene have straight long hair .
Nice recovery mena7. You thought about it, and realized your error.
But do you know why you went down that road in the first place?
It's called a "Programed Response". Even though consciously you know that Black people come in all shades and shapes, with the full range of human features:
Ever since you were born, the Albino subliminal suggestion machine has been working on you and everyone else. The machine taught you that all Blacks have kinky hair, flat nose, big lips, and are Prognathic.
So even though you know better, you instinctively followed your Albino "Programed Response".
If you think I am wrong, just peruse some of the old threads, and see how many Black posters actually used Prognathism as a defining attribute of Blacks. Not that long ago, I had to cuss the dumb bastards out for it; regardless of how much proof I gave them that Blacks were actually less Prognathic than Albinos, they still allowed their programming to take over - Some Negroes really do have weak minds.
Keep this in mind, you will always need it.
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quote:Originally posted by Mike111: Cass - If you're lurking, please help me out with this little experiment for mena7.
By complexion these people are ALL "Pure Blacks": completely unmixed with Albinos like yourself.
In YOUR mind, which of these are truly Blacks?
^ The ulotrichi or wooly haired are the 'Blacks' (Negroids), these are also wider nosed with alveolar prognathism and lip eversion - clearly 3 (although this is a child), 5, 7.
The girl in the first photo is a Southern Indian, there is clearly nothing Negroid 'Black' about her. 3rd from bottom is another Southern Indian. Morphologically and in hair form they are mostly Caucasoid, some just have a weak Australoid component (hence the first girl has a wide nose).
The guy in the greenish shirt you love to spam, is just a Somali/Ethiopian mutt, while 2 and 8 look like other hybrids. These aren't pure Negroid types, but have some form of admixture.
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leiotrichous/liotrichous - Having smooth, or nearly smooth, hair.
A name applied by Huxley (in the form Leiotrichi) to one of the two primary groups into which the races of men are considered to be divisible, the other being Ulotrichi. The Liotrichi are those with smooth hair, and are divisible into four secondary groups: the Australioid, the Mongoloid, the Xanthochroic (yellowish appearance), and the Melanochroic (Caucasians having dark hair and pale complexion).
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All of the above is not about the White mans interest in other people, it's about the White mans interest in himself.
He is trying to define himself:
The obvious explanation - that he is an Albino, or Albino derived, is unsatisfactory to him. Thus he goes through these many machinations to find a more satisfactory definition for himself - but to no avail - he remains merely the Albino of a Black man.
How foolish of you to allow this silly creature to fix your perceptions.
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quote:Originally posted by Mike111: Doxie and Cass, don't you find it strange that Blue-eyed Blondes and Redheads have been ABANDONED!
But I thought that these were SUPPOSED to be the quintessential WHITE PEOPLE.
He,he,he: Huxley was trying to cover his ass. They are Pure Albino, and Huxley didn't want the admixed Albinos tainted by their inclusion.
Ya, he sure fooled me.
Mike, I guess my family isn't pure White then because only three members of my family has Blond hair (my father's brother, & my two oldest neices),the rest of us have from light brown to almost black hair LOL. I was very blond as a child but my hair darkened to a light brown & developed a very red tint as I got older. My cousin's son (lighter skinned than me, with NO Negro features) had blond curly hair as a small boy but again like mine it darkened (Yes his father was a Black man). Btw, Whites come with more than Blond & red hair Mike, we also come with Brown hair of various shades & Black hair. We also come with Brown eyes, hazel eyes, green eyes, gray eyes of various shades.
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^ Doxie, you were born with crooked chicken legs and a hump in your back, but I ain't mad at ya. Seems your Daddy must have had a Tyson chicken fetish.
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leiotrichous/liotrichous - Having smooth, or nearly smooth, hair.
A name applied by Huxley (in the form Leiotrichi) to one of the two primary groups into which the races of men are considered to be divisible, the other being Ulotrichi. The Liotrichi are those with smooth hair, and are divisible into four secondary groups: the Australioid, the Mongoloid, the Xanthochroic (yellowish appearance), and the Melanochroic (Caucasians having dark hair and pale complexion).
That hair classification is very old. Haddon's (1924) typology is better:
If you look under a microscope these different hair textures have different follicle shapes.
Negroids ('Blacks') are strictly wooly haired, so posting wavy haired Indians and trying to pass them off as 'black' when they are Caucasoid is just stupid.
Mike, i've never understood why you claim people who look nothing like you to be ''black''. You have no honesty to even call a spade a spade.
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Ah yes: the impoverished Albino intellect and morality. When the lies have been exposed, and the fantasies revealed, the Albino turns to Photoshopped images, and degradation of the poor and disadvantaged.
Cass, Albinos are poor too.
And when I want to find an ugly Albino, I don't need a Photoshopped image.
But that is purely for demonstration:
Black people are above such Albino depravity.
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^Now, now: lets not stoop to the level of the Albino. We taught them civilized behavior before, now we must do so again.
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what makes you think this looks like a black person?
It looks like some Amish white man with a beard and pencil thin lips.
Is this a case of the "I see black people" disorder?
Although it is impossible to be certain my honest first impression as a black woman is that this statue does not look any more like a black person than this:
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Mike you stupid racist, White people hating, lying, history stealing POS. We Whites do NOT need ignorant racist Blacks like you telling us what our history is or is not & trying to tell us what our identity is. When the heck are you finally gonna tell the truth & admit why you do this? When will you finally admit that you do this because you HATE Whites & therefore want us to have no history of any kind, no heritage what so ever, no identity of any kind, no homeland to call our own, & want us to feel that we thus have nothing to be proud of us a people, are not human and thus have no place in history or on earth. That you and Marc, Clyde, Eghead, IronLiar,Kikuyu want to paint everyone in history Black & write us out, writing yourselves in in our place, like we don't even exist. When are you gonna admit that you & your cohorts (Marc, Clyde, Kikuyu, Egghead, Narmer, etc) want nothing more than to see Whites exterminated from the face of the earth due to your intolerable hatred of us.
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quote:When are you gonna admit that you & your cohorts (Marc, Clyde, Kikuyu, Egghead, Narmer, etc) want nothing more than to see Whites exterminated from the face of the earth due
Negroids will go extinct before Caucasoids. There are far fewer of the former, while they push for miscegenation. Furthermore the Negroid phenotype will disappear through science (cosmetics), we already observe this - 'Blacks' en masse are artificially straightening their hair and getting nasal surgery to have thinner noses. In the next 200 years when facial lifts become more and common, Blacks will be having Caucasoid face plants. This though won't change the behaviour or IQ of Blacks, race is far more than mere physical traits.
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Above we can read the babble of a nazi being cornered!
quote:Originally posted by low IQ Anglo_F/Lyng pig:
quote:For the sake of Balance:
leiotrichous/liotrichous - Having smooth, or nearly smooth, hair.
A name applied by Huxley (in the form Leiotrichi) to one of the two primary groups into which the races of men are considered to be divisible, the other being Ulotrichi. The Liotrichi are those with smooth hair, and are divisible into four secondary groups: the Australioid, the Mongoloid, the Xanthochroic (yellowish appearance), and the Melanochroic (Caucasians having dark hair and pale complexion).
That hair classification is very old. Haddon's (1924) typology is better:
If you look under a microscope these different hair textures have different follicle shapes.
Negroids ('Blacks') are strictly wooly haired, so posting wavy haired Indians and trying to pass them off as 'black' when they are Caucasoid is just stupid.
Mike, i've never understood why you claim people who look nothing like you to be ''black''. You have no honesty to even call a spade a spade.
1924? looooooool
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It's near midnight EST. (I presume you are an American on the east coast.) Aren't you going to bed? It will be interesting to see what time in the early hours you post at.
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It's near midnight EST. (I presume you are an American on the east coast.) Aren't you going to bed? It will be interesting to see what time in the early hours you post at.
Nobody would be awake in the late night hours, impossible -good detective work Holmes
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