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FROM PETER NEVE, DIE OBERSTADT VON ḪATTUŠA. DIE BAUWERKE, VOL. I (BERLIN: MANN, 1999)

LIBERATING THE SONG OF LIBERATION. A trove of cuneiform-inscribed clay tablets was uncovered in and around a Hattusa temple beneath a Byzantine church that had been built millennia later. Among them were fragments of the Song of Liberation, captured here in the moment of discovery.