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Karasu Relief
The Karasu relief, also known as the Süpürgüç relief after the earlier name of the nearby town of Akbudak, is a rock relief located on a tributary of the Euphrates and derives from the Neo-Hittite period. It depicts a protective god standing on a deer. Rock reliefs are a prominent aspect of Hittite art. Location and discovery The relief is located near the town of Gümüşpınar near Akbudak in the district of Araban, Gaziantep Province, Turkey, on a cliff-face about 200 m above the Karasu river, about three km from where it meets the Euphrates. Here the river has dug a deep gorge in the limestone of the ''Kartal Dağı''. A few metres below the top of the cliff is the relief on the east side of a rectangular outcrop. In the early first millennium BC the border between the Iron Age kingdoms of Kummuh (later Commagene) and Carchemish was located in the area. From the inscription on the late Assyrian relief at Kenk Boğazı, ten kilometres away, it appears that both re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Karasu, Kara-su, Kara su, Qarasu or Gharasu (lit. 'black water/river' in Turkic languages) may refer to: Rivers The Balkans * A former name of the Struma River (Struma Karasu) in Bulgaria and Thrace, northern Greece * A former name of the Mesta River (Mesta Karasu) in Bulgaria and northern Greece, forming the border between Greek Macedonia and Thrace * A former name of the Haliacmon (İnce Karasu) in western Macedonia, northern Greece * Karasu (Istanbul), a river in the greater Istanbul area of Turkey Central Asia * Qarasu River, a small river in northeast Iran feeding into the southeast corner of the Caspian Sea * Kara-Suu (Aksy), a right tributary of the river Naryn in Aksy District, Kyrgyzstan * Kara-Suu (Kara-Köl), a left tributary of the river Naryn (river), Naryn near Kara-Köl, Kyrgyzstan * Karasu, name of the last stretch of river Shiderti, Kazakhstan * Karasu (Koybagar), a river in the Kostanay Region, Kazakhstan * Karasu (Urkash), a river in the Kostanay Region, Kazak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
