Anatolia. Or it may be Kupapiyas, who was the wife – or possibly mother – of Taita, the dynastic founder of ancient Tayinat. But it's also possible that the statue represents the wife of King Suppiluliuma. Archaeologist Timothy Harrison raised the possibility that women played quite a prominent role in the political and religious lives of these early Iron Age communities. See also Tell Judaidah Cities of the ancient Near East Short chronology timeline Euphrates Syrian Pillar Figurines Euphrates Handmade Syrian Horses and Riders References Future reading Langis-Barsetti, D., "Building Kunulua Block by Block: Exploring Archaeology through Minecraft", Near Eastern Archaeology 84(1), pp. 62–70, 2021 Batiuk, S., and Harrison, T. P, "The Metals Trade and Early Bronze Age Craft Production at Tell Tayinat", pp. 48-66 in Overturning Certainties in Near Eastern Archaeology: A festschrift in Honor of K. Aslihan Yener, ed. C. Maner, M. T. Horowitz, and A. S. Gilbert. Leiden, Boston: Brill., 2017 Emanuel, J.P., "King Taita and his “Palistin” : philistine state or neo-hittite kingdom?", Antiguo Oriente, Cuadernos del Centro de Estudios de Historia del Antiguo Oriente, vol 13. pp. 11-40, 2015 Denel, E. and Harrison, T. P., The Neo-Hittite Citadel Gate at Tayinat (Ancient Kunulua). Pp. 137-55 in The Archaeology of Anatolia: Recent Discoveries (2015-2016), Vol. 2. ed. S. Steadman and G. McMahon. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017 Fales, Frederick Mario, "After Ta'yinat: the new status of Esarhaddon's adê for Assyrian political history", Revue d'assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale 106.1. pp. 133-158, 2012 Manning, S.M., Lorentzen, B., Welton, L, Batiuk, S., Harrison, T.P., "Beyond megadrought and collapse in the Northern Levant: The chronology of Tell Tayinat and two historical inflection episodes, around 4.2ka BP, and following 3.2ka BP", PLOSOne., October 29 2020 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240799 Harrison, T., "The Iron Age I–II Transition in the Northern Levant: An Emerging Consensus?", Jerusalem Journal of Archaeology, pp. 325–351, 2021 Harrison, Timothy P., "The Neo-Assyrian governor’s residence at Tell Ta‘yinat.", Bulletin of the Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies 40, pp. 23-33, 2005 Janeway, Brian, "The nature and extent of Aegean contact at Tell Ta ‘yinat and vicinity in the Early Iron Age: Evidence of the Sea Peoples", Cyprus, the Sea Peoples and the Eastern Mediterranean: Regional Perspectives of Continuity and Change. Scripta Mediterranea, pp. 27-28, 2006 Roames, Jim., "The early iron age metal workshop at Tell Tayinat, Turkey", MRS Online Proceedings Library 1319.1, pp. 1-7, 2011 External links Tayinat Archaeological Project —the website