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Chamber and Sacred Pool

Hattusha, Capital City of the Hittite Empire

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Hattusha Chamber and Sacred Pool. The side wall of the sacred pool.

Hattusha Chamber and Sacred Pool. The side wall of the sacred pool. The chamber with the carvings of deities is just in the middle.

Nazli Evrim Serifoglu
Adjacent to the sacred pools are underground chambers, of unknown use, possibly for storage or religious reasons. At the center of the wall at the top of the rise is a sacred niche; the next photograph details the niche.

Source: Chamber 2: The Chamber of Hieroglyphs, from the official website of Hattusha.
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