Tarhunta was the Luwian and Hittite god of sky, thunder, and storms. He was also known as Taru, Tarhun, Tarhunt, and Tarhuwant, names derived from the Anatolian root *tarh "to defeat, conquer." Tarhunta was assimilated into the Hurrian Teshub by Muwatalli II, ruler of the Hittite New Kingdom in the early 13th century B.C. Teshub reappears in the post-Hurrian cultural successor kingdom of Urartu as Tesheba, one of their chief gods; in Urartian art he is depicted standing on a bull. The depiction on this coin is from a monumental relief found at Tyana, an ancient city in the Anatolian region of Cappadocia, in modern Kemerhisar, Nigde Province, Central Anatolia, Turkey. It was the capital of a Luwian-speaking Neo-Hittite kingdom in the 1st millennium B.C. |  |