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The Manisa relief, also known as the Akpınar relief and the Cybele relief ((トルコ語:'Taş Suret') (Cliff image) or Sipil Heykeli (Sipylos Monument)), is a Hittite rock relief at Akpınar, about 5 km east of the Turkish provincial capital of Manisa above an amusement park on the road to Salihli. It depicts a Hittite divinity. == Description == The relief is located in a niche about 100-120 m up a granite cliff-face of Mount Sipylus, overlooking the city of Manisa, the ancient Lydian city of Magnesia ad Sipylum, and the Gediz river valley (the ancient Hermos). It is over 6 m high and in poor condition. A seated figure 8-10 m high is depicted in high relief (but not completely separated from the cliff face), who looks northwards and wears a tall pointed headdress. Its hands seem to rest on its breasts, the feet rest atop a footstool. The head has partly cleaved away, from natural causes.〔G.E. Bean, ''Aegean Turkey: an archaeological guide'', vol. ii, pp 31-33 and pl. 3; C. P. Jones, "A Geographical Setting for the Baucis and Philemon Legend (Ovid ''Metamorphoses'' 8.611-724)" ''Harvard Studies in Classical Philology'' 96 (1994:203-23 and pls. I-IV) pp 210f, with bibliography.〕 Two remnants of Luwian hieroglyphic inscriptions are visible to the right of his head, which indicate that the relief dates to the Hittite period. Cecil John Cadoux thought a date in the time of Suppiluliuma I or his son Mursili II (i.e. 14th century BC) was probable.〔 Cecil John Cadoux: ''Ancient Smyrna. A history of the city from the earliest times to 324 A.D.'' Blackwell, Oxford 1938, pp. 25-26.〕 Helmuth Theodor Bossert read the leftmost inscription (Akpınar 1) as "Prince Kuwalanamuwa", the same name which is found on the Hanyeri relief, but it is unclear whether both refer to the same individual. The right inscription (Akpınar 2) was not legible to Hans Gustav Güterbock, who studied the relief with R.A. Alexander in 1978.〔Horst Ehringhaus: ''Götter, Herrscher, Inschriften.'' 2005, p. 87.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Manisa relief」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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