Illustration of throne and inscription, Hartapu monument, Kızıldağ

Illustration of the throne on the Hittite monument which is located in Kızıldağ (meaning Red Mountain in Turkish), one of the cones of the Karadağ group of mountains where surfaces of a rock outcrop are carved and flattened to form a "throne" with a relief and inscription near the top of the mountain. The relief depicting a seated man holding a cane in left hand and a bowl in the right, carved on the flattened surface of the back seat of the throne and the hieroglyphic Luwian inscription is right next to the head of the figure gives his name as "Great King, Hartapu". The severely damaged second and third inscriptions a little to its left were destroyed by treaure seekers. On the horizontal surface was a second inscription reading "Beloved(?) (of) the mighty Storm-God, the Sun, Great King, Hartapu" and on the vertical surface right next to it was a third inscription in three lines reading "Beloved(?) (of) the Storm-God, The Sun, Great King, Hartapu, son of Mursili, Great King, hero, built this city." Hartapu appearing in two other Hittite monuments at Karadağ and Burunkaya was probably the name of one of the local rulers assuming such traditional titles after the collapse of the Hittite empire. Originally the monument was dated to the 12th-10th century BC based on the inscribed letters yet Hawkins suggests that the relief of the king may have been added in later centuries by Tabal kings given the fact that the late style of the Assyrian style hair and beard of the king relief suggests a dating towards much later times around the 8th century BC. (Hawkins, J. D. "The Inscriptions of the Kızıldağ and the Karadağ in the Light of the Yalburt Inscription," in FsAlp, Ankara: TTK, 1992: 259-75. Hawkins, J. D. Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions, Vol 1, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2000: 429-42 and plts. 236-39, 242.)135 film (36×24 mm