Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Mnemes Kharin ❦ Filiz Dönmez- Öztürk Anısına Makaleler Anadolu Arkeolojisi, Epigrafisi ve Eskiçağ Tarihine Dâir Güncel Araştırmalar, Bülent Öztürk,Hüseyin Sami Öztürk,Kenan Eren,Bünyan Burak Aykanat, Editör, Homer Yayınları, İstanbul, ss.603-819, 2019
Literary
sources, mainly annals and inscriptions, as well as ancient items of
illustrative art and material culture provide an insight into the political,
economic and religious history of cultures, and are the major resources for our
knowledge of ancient societies. Ancient literary sources such as the Annals of
Sargon, as official treatises, emphasize the glory of the king, narrating
military campaigns, triumphant battles, and treaties. The inscriptions found in
Plain Cilicia mostly provide information about the socioeconomics, cults, and beliefs of the region. Archaeological
investigations conducted in East Plain Cilicia provide clues with regard to
three different cults and beliefs prevalent in the region: these are the cult
of the mountain god, the cult of the fertility goddess, and a sacred tree cult.
Archaeological finds, some of which bear significant marks, decorations or
writings representing such cults in East Plain Cilicia, that is, Yukarı
Çukurova Plain in Osmaniye Province, are listed as including an inscription
carved on rock, two fragmentary terracotta objects, and a bust statue of a
female deity. Cult-related archaeological finds provide an insight to the cults
and beliefs of East Plain Cilicia which have survived or been revived and have endured for almost two
thousand years in the region.