İmamkullu relief

The trachyte block with the relief is located on the flank of the 3045 m high Bey Dağı to the south of İmamkullu.

This spot marks the start of the Gezbel pass, where two routes met and crossed the Taurus Mountains in ancient times.

One of them came from the Hittite heartland through Kayseri and Tomarza, following the Zamantı Irmağı river; the other came from Cappadocia via Develi, passing the Fıraktın and Taşçı reliefs on the way.

The relief is about 3.25 x 2 metres and was engraved on the northwest side of a large boulder, on a slightly convex, but conveniently flat surface.

He wears pointy shoes, a short soldier's kilt and a pointed hat with horns, which identifies him as a god.

[4] Her legs are depicted without feet, in the manner of cult statues and she stands on top of a stylised tree.

The motif of the weather god and an undressing goddess, often with a bird between them, is attested from the early Bronze Age on Syrian cylinder seals (and other media).

A report was first published by the French orientalist Louis Delaporte after its discovery by Kemaleddin Karamete of Kayseri in 1934.

In the same year, Piero Meriggi proposed a reading of the hieroglyphs, which Hans Gustav Güterbock, who visited the relief in 1978, supported.