incantation priest making clay images of deities banished to the
Underworld in the shape of swords plunged into the ground.
So how do we put all this information together? At present, the
most convincing interpretation proposed for Chamber B is that it
provided the burial place for King Tudhaliya. The chieffigures
in Chamber B face towards the chamber’s north end, directing
attention to whatmayhave been a monumental statue erected
Figure 24.3Tudhaliya and Sharrumma, Yazılıkaya.
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