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Both orthostats depict offering scenes. On the left, King Allumalli(?) is offering a libation to the god Šarruma, the Mountain-King, shown standing on a lion. On the right a princess(?) named Tuwati is shown in a similar scene, making offerings to the goddess Šauška, who is shown standing on two birds. Names of the king, pricess and the deities are writting in Luwian hieroglyphs. The orthostats were probably on the east wing of the Lion Gate to the left of the lion statue, facing north. The limestone blocks measure 0.49 x 0.56 meter and 0.46 x 0.81 meter in height and length respectively. They are dated to the 12th-11th centuries BCE. Currently in the Anatolian Civilizations Museum in Ankara.


B. Bilgin, 2022 B. Bilgin, 2022


Literature:
Hawkins, J. D. Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions, Vol 1, Berlin, 2000: 307–9 and plt. 147–8. (MALATYA 7 and 6)
Metzger H. "Une lecture nouvelle des reliefs de Malatya," Revue Archéologique 1978: 199.
Orthmann, W. Untersuchungen zur späthethitischen Kunst, Bonn, 1971. (Malatya A/10 and A/7)

Image sources:
Bora Bilgin, 2022.