Louis Delaporte, Claude F.A. Schaeffer, Piero Meriggi, Salvatore M. Puglisi, Alba Palmieri
Condition
In ruins
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Official name
Arslantepe Mound
Criteria
Cultural: (iii)
Designated
2021 (44th session)
Reference no.
1622
Area
4.85 ha (12.0 acres)
Buffer zone
74.07 ha (183.0 acres)
A Hittite lion from the Neo-Hittite era (1180-700 BC) at the entrance to the ruins of Arslantepe.A Hittite relief of a libation to Tiwaz and Arma from the ruins of Arslantepe at the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara.
Melid,[a] also known as Arslantepe, was an ancient city on the Tohma River, a tributary of the upper Euphrates rising in the Taurus Mountains. It has been identified with the modern archaeological site of Arslantepe near Malatya, Turkey.[4]
It was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site under the name Arslantepe Mound on 26 July 2021.[5]
^"Melid." Reallexikon der Assyriologie. Accessed 12 Dec 2010.
^KBo V 8 IV 18. Op. cit. Puhvel, Jaan. Trends in Linguistics: Hittite Etymological Dictionary: Vol. 6: Words Beginning with M. Walter de Gruyter, 2004. Accessed 12 Dec 2010.
^Hawkins, John D. Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions. Vol. 1: Inscriptions of the Iron Age. Walter de Gruyter, 2000.
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^"UNESCO adds 6000-year-old 'Lion Hill' in Turkey's Malatya to list". Daily Sabah. 26 July 2021. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
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Melid, also known as Arslantepe, was an ancient city on the Tohma River, a tributary of the upper Euphrates rising in the Taurus Mountains. It has been...
The city has been a human settlement for thousands of years. In Hittite, melid or milit means "honey", offering a possible etymology for the name, which...
bank of the Upper Euphrates within the eastern loop of the river between Melid and Carchemish. Assyrian sources refer to both the land and its capital...
Institute has argued that Luwian was spoken from the eastern Aegean coast to Melid and as far north as Alaca Hoyuk during the Hittite Kingdom. After the collapse...
was also the language spoken in the Neo-Hittite states of Syria, such as Melid and Carchemish, as well as in the central Anatolian kingdom of Tabal that...
Excavations started in 1932, and carried out by Italian archaeologists. Melid "Five Thousand Years Old Throne in Adobe Palace". TR Dergisi. Retrieved...
century BC. Important Luwian centres in this period included Carchemish, Melid, and Tabal. The Luwian religion is attested up to the early Roman period...
Kingdom. The most notable Syro-Hittite kingdoms were those at Carchemish and Melid. With the ruling family in Carchemish believed to have been an cadet branch...
Age) (Melid was its main centre) Kammanu (region or country and also post-Hittite Luwian state in the first millennium BC) (its main city was Melid, later...
Kizzuwatna after the collapse of the Hittite Empire. Its principal city was Melid. Albert Ten Eyck Olmstead (1908). Western Asia in the Days of Sargon of...
Armenian state was the kingdom of "The House of Togarmah" in the area of Melid (Melitene, modern Malatya) on ... Here, as we know from the abovementionaed...
Urartian territory by conquering the northern region of Colchis, as well as Melid and Kummuh in the Euphrates valley. Urartian sources refer to campaigns...
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