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Symbols of Hittite goddess of sexuality found on 4,000-year-old tablet discovered in central Turkey
Hurriyet ^
| August 13, 2015
| Dogan News Agency
Posted on 08/15/2015 7:49:16 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Amid excavations at four different ancient sites in the Central Anatolian province of Yozgat, a cuneiform tablet has been unearthed in the Uflakle Mound at the Büyük Tafllek village.
Thought to date back to around 2,000 B.C., the cuneiform tablet in the Sorgun district of Yozgat shows symbols of ishtar, known as the Hittite goddess of love, war, fertility and sexuality, more clearly than those on any other unearthed tablets.
"Considering the intensity of archaeological materials on the surface and diffusion area, the mound tends to bear traces of Hittite Civilization. it is thought that the mound was affiliated to another Hittite site 'Zippalanda,' which is thought to be a center for worshiping Typhoon, the Greek god of thunder, and is two to three days' walking distance from the Hittite capital Hattusa," states the excavation report...
The remaining field is being unearthed by a team from the Yozgat Museum in the Sarikaya district, which discovered the cuneiform tablet...
Meanwhile, excavations were recently completed in Çadirhöyük, near the village of Peyniryemez in the Sorgun district, where works were first launched in 1994 by a team led by Professor Gregory McMahon from New Hampshire University in the U.S. The findings included a large number of artefacts dating back to the Chalcolithic, Bronze, Hittite, Hellenistic and Byzantine eras.
A team is continuing work to excavate a "Roman Bath" dating back 2,000 years in Sarikaya, and as part of these works artifacts dating back to Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk and Ottoman terms have been unearthed.
However, works at the Tavium ancient site in the village of Büyüknefes, known as the metropolis of Galatian tribes, came to a halt in 2012 amid a lack of people interested in excavating at the site.
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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: 19thdynasty; 25thdynasty; aegean; alphabet; anatolia; boghazkoy; catastrophism; cuneiform; emilforrer; epigraphyandlanguage; godsgravesglyphs; hattusa; hattusas; hittite; hittites; ishtar; sorgun; trojanwar; turkey; yozgat; zippalanda
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08/15/2015 7:49:16 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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08/15/2015 7:50:25 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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08/15/2015 7:50:28 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
To: SunkenCiv
Now we have the real answer as to why Megyn Kelly took an unscheduled vacation.
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08/15/2015 7:51:29 PM PDT
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BigEdLB
(They need to target the 'Ministry of Virtue' which has nothing to do with virtue.)
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08/15/2015 7:52:56 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
To: BigEdLB
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posted on
08/15/2015 7:53:51 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
To: SunkenCiv
“Thought to date back to around 2,000 B.C.,” I guess that makes it official.
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08/15/2015 7:55:19 PM PDT
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Fungi
To: SunkenCiv
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08/15/2015 7:58:45 PM PDT
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Lurkina.n.Learnin
(It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
To: SunkenCiv
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08/15/2015 7:59:26 PM PDT
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Bratch
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08/15/2015 8:02:18 PM PDT
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Bratch
To: SunkenCiv
To: Bratch
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08/15/2015 8:09:01 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Bratch
FYI, Ishtar was not renamed to Easter by Constantine. The Latin for Easter is Pascha (as in Paschal / Passover Lamb)
In Italian it's Pasqua
Spanish: Pascua
French: Pâques
Dutch: Pasen
Danish: påske
Portuguese: Páscoa
Greek: Πάσχα (pascha)
Only in the German and English is the day for the Resurrection called anything resembling "Easter" (English: Easter
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08/15/2015 8:14:08 PM PDT
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markomalley
(Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
To: Bratch
and that is not Ishtar, that is Lilith.
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08/15/2015 8:14:24 PM PDT
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apostoli
(Time to thump the nose of the parrots.)
To: Bratch
Jesus' death and resurrection occurred at the time they did, because of his identification as a type for the sacrificial lamb of the Jewish Passover, celebrating God's victory in freeing the Jews from slavery in Egypt. It has nothing to do with some Assyrian tw*t.
Let me guess, you have a religious studies major from an Ivy League school?
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08/15/2015 8:18:03 PM PDT
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grey_whiskers
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To: Snickering Hound
A pretty girl
is like a melody
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08/15/2015 8:24:58 PM PDT
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tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
To: Bratch; Lazamataz; SunkenCiv
To: tumblindice
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08/15/2015 8:28:06 PM PDT
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grey_whiskers
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To: Snickering Hound
The antidote for the four hour plus erection.
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08/15/2015 8:28:50 PM PDT
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TruthWillWin
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
To: tumblindice
If she was holding her nose any higher she would drown out in the rain
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08/15/2015 8:30:08 PM PDT
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TruthWillWin
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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