[decimon]

Neo but not ping.

[SunkenCiv]

Yes, one of *those* topics.

a cache of cuneiform tablets dating back to the Iron Age period between 1200 and 600 BCE... assemblage appears to represent a Neo-Assyrian renovation of an older Neo-Hittite temple complex... also contained gold, bronze and iron implements, libation vessels and ornately decorated ritual objects... preserves the classic plan of a Neo-Hittite temple. It formed part of a sacred precinct that once included monumental stelae carved in Luwian (an extinct Anatolian language once spoken in Turkey) hieroglyphic script, but which were found by the expedition smashed into tiny shard-like fragments... "destroyed by the Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser III in 738 BCE... Scholars have long speculated that the reference to Calneh in Isaiah's oracle against Assyria alludes to Tiglath-pileser's devastation of Kunulua -- ie, Tayinat. The destruction of the Luwian monuments and conversion of the sacred precinct into an Assyrian religious complex may represent the physical manifestation of this historic event."

Thanks decimon.

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[SunkenCiv]

http://www.news.utoronto.ca/artsci.harrison.turkey.JPG
http://www.news.utoronto.ca/lead-stories/university-of-toronto-archaeologists-find-cache-of-cuneiform-tablets-in-270-1.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/images/2009/08/090810122133-large.jpg
http://www.sciencedaily.com/images/2009/08/090810122133.jpg
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090810122133.htm

[eleni121]

Turkish temple?

There were no Turks at that time in that place. They were probably roaming the Asian steppes where they should have stayed.

This is an Assyrian temple—not a Turkish one!

[Nikas777]

I concur with Lucius Cornelius Sulla that the title is incorrectly worded. The temple was not Turkish but found inside modern Turkey.

This may seem like a minor point but it is actually very important.