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Lawazantiya

Lawazantiya was a city of Kizzuwatna in south-eastern Anatolia in the 2nd millennium BCE, a centre of the cult of the Hurrian goddess Shaushka, identified with Ishtar. The Hittite queen Puduhepa was the daughter of a priest of the city, and King Hattusili III married her there. Its exact location is uncertain, though it probably lay in the region of Elbistan or the Cilician hills.

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Lawazantiya. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/lawazantiya
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