Alaca Höyük bronze standards
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The Alaca Höyük bronze standards are a series of bronze objects found among the grave goods in the princely tombs of Alaca Höyük in Turkey. They are generally understood as cult instruments, probably
Disc-shaped standard
Bull
Deer with silver decoration
Ring shaped standard with deer and two bulls
Hittites
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The Hittites were an Anatolian Indo-European people who formed one of the first major civilizations of the Bronze Age in West Asia. Possibly originating from beyond the Black Sea, they settled in nort
Alaca Höyük bronze standards
…for a long time, possibly more than two hundred years, between the 22nd and 20th centuries BC—the period of the Hattians, before the rise of the Hittite Empire. The Alaca Höyük bronze standards are used in stylised form by various organisations as logos, such as the University of Ankara, the city, and the…
Sphinx Gate entrance to the city
The Great Temple in the inner city of Hattusa
Ivory Hittite Sphinx, 18th century BC