page_title: Karatepe-Aslantaş National Park
section_title: Open-aır museum
hierarchical_section_title: Karatepe-Aslantaş National Park / Open-aır museum
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Arslantaş, späthethitische Löwenskulpturen nahe Darende in der türkischen Provinz Malatya, Löwe A
context_page_description: Karatepe-Aslantaş National Park, established in 1958, is a national park in southern Turkey. Situated on the banks of a dam reservoir, it contains an archaeological open-air museum.
context_section_description: The national park comprises Turkey's first established open-air museum as irs centerpiece with the same name. It is situated atop Karatepe, on a peninsula of the Aslantaş Dam reservoir. The site, called locally "Hitit Yarımadası" ("Hittite Peninsula"), is reached by a 1,200 m (3,900 ft)-long stone-paved trail from the entrance of the national park.
  The open-air museum is an archaeological site, an ancient walled settlement of the Neo-Hittites dating back to the 8th century. Excavated between 1946 and 1952, the artifacts, stone statues and reliefs inside the ruined fortification, are left at their original place. Lion statues on stone (Turkish: Aslantaş) give the site its name. The Karatepe Bilingual, inscriptions on stone with the same text in Phoenician alphabet and Hieroglyphic Luwian, which enabled the decryption of the Anatolian hieroglyphs, is the most interesting piece of the open-air museum.
caption: Neo-Hittite lion stone statues (Turkish: Aslantaş) at Karatepe-Aslantaş Open-Air Museum inside the national park.
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