Hittite Monuments Site Index (HMSI)

The Hittite Monuments Site Index (HMSI) is based on information from the website Hittite Monuments (https://www.hittitemonuments.com/), maintained by Tayfun Bilgin. This digital humanities project aims to provide visual references to all major Hittite/Neo-Hittite period stone monuments in a Turkish and English version. A brief description, photographs and bibliographical references make this data collection an essential up-to-date reference work. For the Hittite Monuments Site Index (HMSI) the information available on the website Hittite Monuments was recorded in a table, provided with a standardised object description and thus published on the repository zenodo as the Hittite Monuments Site Index (HMSI). A short article about the HMSI was published in the journal Antike Welt 02/2023 (https://wbg-zeitschriften.de/produkt/die-neohethiter/).

Columns

OID: object ID.
Name: site name.
Period: Empire Period; Neo-Hittite Period.
Type:
mobile object: base (bull-base; lion-base; sphinx-base); building inscription; orhostat; statue (bull-man; portal-bull; portal-lion; portal-sphinx; storm-god; winged-genie); stele.
immobile object: complex; rock inscription; rock relief.
further details: image; inscription.
condition: fragment.
iconography: altar; bull; deity; Enki; funerary-stele; Giglamesh; king; Kubaba; lion; mountain-god; queen; sphinx; stag-god; storm-god. 
language: aramaic; assyrian; greek; hittite; luwian; phoenician; roman; 0 [=no inscription].
link: URL of the website Hittite Monuments.
accuracy of point: certain; representative; tentative.
x: longitude coordinate (WGS 84)
y: coordinate latitude coordinate (WGS 84)
museum: current location (museum name; in situ)
dimension: in cm 
in situ: yes; no; ?