"....the bones, not cremated, were lying in disorder and the body seemed to have been simply shoved
into the hole. With it were....
b. in the entrance of the outer grate-tower was found a small limestone stela, very crudely engraved with
a representation of a seate human figure.
c. above the stone conduit and just in front of the blocking-wall were skull and some other bones of a
HORSE or HORSES, part of a human skull...."
Hittite / Carchemish
Hitit / Karkamış/Kargamış-Gaziantep
Carchemish : report on the excavations at Djerabis
on behalf of the British museum: BOOK
Horse burials are not Hittite custom!
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DATA ON HORSE BURIALS ARE MORE SCANTY ,
BECAUSE THEIR REMAINS WERE NOT ALWAYS COLLECTED. AND
SOMETIMES WERE NOT EVEN
MENTIONED IN THE RECORD OF EXCAVATIONS....!!!
Skeletal remains from the older Hittite empire were found in
two tombs at OSMAN KAYASI near HATTUŞA ;
one tomb may be dated between the 17th and 15th
centuries,
the second between the 15th and the 14th.
Each tomb contained an adult animal standing 14 to 14.1 hands
high and several horses of smaller size.
The limbs of the larger horses are more slender than
the
limbs of European horses of the smae size,
and it is tmepting to see in them representatives
of the fine
oriental breeds.
Coming to the Iron Age, late Hittite tombs at NORŞUN TEPE (*) in
eastern ANATOLİA, of the 7th century
BC contained two stallions and a mare.
The stallions stood
14 to 14.1 hands high, the mare only 12.2….
From the book:
An Early History of Horsemanship ,1985
By Augusto
Azzaroli
(*) In the eastern part of Anatolia lived Scythians and Cimmerians to!
GORDION , KIMMERIANS and HORSE BURIALS
BURIAL WITH HORSES,
STELA WITH HUMAN FIGURE ON GRAVES ARE CALLED TASHBABA/TAŞBABA
TURKISH CULTURE
An archeological expedition in Zhaksy District of Akmola Oblast has discovered a burial of a warrior of the Turkish* period belonging to 6-7 centuries AD. (* Turkish Khaganate Period-Gokturk)
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