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Bronze Solar Symbol, Early Bronze Age.
Alacahöyük (which belongs to the second half of the 3rd millennium BC),
and the statuette of a breastfeeding woman obtained in the graveyard of
Horoztepe made in the casting technique. The pure-silver statuette of a
naked woman found in Hasano¤lan is one of the most beautiful examples
of the First Bronze Age. In the king tombs of Alacahöyük,
Mahmatlar and Horoztepe too, deer and bull statuettes which turned
out to be of sacred meaning, have been obtained. These statuettes form
a stylistic unity with the solar discs in terms of embellishment and style.
The bull represents the god of sky, whereas the deer represents the
mother goddess. The bulls were covered with a very thin silver plate on
their necks, waists, the tips of their horns and their foreheads. These
artifacts, made with the technique of casting and wroughting, were
attached to a rod and carried by the monks in front of the crowd
during religious rituals, and were also used as the symbols of the animalformed
gods in the middle of the solar discs. These types of metal
objects were also encountered in Kal›nkaya and Eskiyapar near
Alacahöyük and Eskiflehir Demircihöyük, which are contemporary with
the latter Alacahöyük graves.
Then came the third stage of the First Bronze Age dating to 2400-1800
BC. The third to fifth layers of Troia are from this period. Tankard-and
depas-type of wares and typical wares such as ‘the Troian Plate’ made
with lathe in Western Anatolia are among the remarkable products of
this period. K›rklareli Kanl›geçit too, where there are three megara, is
a settlement corresponding to the end of the third period of the First
Bronze Age. Red or camel beak-mouthed jugs and goblets having two
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