Sphinx Gate - Hattusas - Bogazkale, Turkey
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N 40° 00.367 E 034° 37.010
36T E 638003 N 4429687
Sphinx Gate at the middle of the stretch of city wall across the artificial ridge of Yerkapi
Waymark Code: WMFDHB
Location: Türkiye
Date Posted: 10/02/2012
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In contrast to the other grand city gates, it is not flanked by towers, but passes directly through a tower. It takes its name from the four sculpted sphinxes that once adorned the great blocks on either side of the doorways. Sphinxes are heterogenous creatures with a human head and the body of a lion. The Hittites must have adopted the sphinx from Egypt, where the Sphinx represented a King. The soft facial contours of Hittite sphinxes, however, suggest that they represent females.
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