Aramic effects on plastic works in the Late Hittite art

Towards the end of the Bronze Age, great and radical changes took place in Anatolia. This change negatively affected the region and completely destabilized the region. In the late 13th century, the Kassites dissolved in Southern Mesopotamia, the influence of the Egyptian Dynasty on Mesopotamia itself weakened, and the Hittites in Anatolia were destroyed. Assyria was the least affected by these changes in the region due to its geography. The main reasons for this change and destruction were waves of migration, different ethnic groups, drought, famine, and internal turmoil. Due to this confusion, the copper trade between Anatolia and Mesopotamia was interrupted, and the use of iron, which was necessary before, became widespread. Thus, the Bronze Age ended, and a new age began. Due to the authority gap and instability in the region, from Southern Mesopotamia and Arab deserts to Northern Syria and Southeastern Anatolia large migration waves of nomadic people began in the middle of the 12th century. These waves of migration took place under the leadership of the Arameans, the pastoralist people of Western Semitic origin. As a result of centuries of migration interweaving between geographies, the entire ethnic structure of the region has changed. When these waves of immigration started, there was a cosmopolitan ethnic stratification of Hurrians, Hittites and Luwis in general in Northern Syria and Southeast Anatolia. Since the Hittite Empire has given the weight of its military and political policies to Southeastern Anatolia and Northern Syria, a large population was provided to this region. This population led to the emergence of large and small city-states in Anatolia and Northern Syria. Such city-states saw themselves as the inheritors of the great kingdom in Anatolia and Northern Syria after the collapse of the Hittites. The rulers and people of these city-states lived together with the Arameans who had just arrived in the region for about half a century. Henceforth, this patchwork of diverse ethnic populations influenced existing concepts such as art, culture, and beliefs.