Hüseyindede Tepe is an Early Hittite site in the Sungurlu

Sungurlu

Sungurlu is the largest and wealthiest district of Çorum Province in the Black Sea Region of Turkey, located at 72 km south-west of the city of Çorum. Population is about 59,283 of which 34,159 live in the town of Sungurlu...

 district of Turkey's Çorum Province

Çorum Province

Çorum Province is a province in the Black Sea Region of Turkey, but lying inland and having more characteristics of Central Anatolia than the Black Sea coast....

, about 2 km south of a town called Yörüklü (pop. 2,988 as of 2000). The site has been surveyed in 1997, leading to the rare discovey of a vase relief depicting a bull-leaping

Bull-leaping

Bull-leaping is a motif of Middle Bronze Age figurative art, notably of Minoan Crete, but also found in Hittite Anatolia, the Levant, Bactria and the Indus Valley. It is often interpreted as a depiction of a ritual performed in connection with bull worship...

 scene

The Hüseyindede Vase after a vase found in İnandık is only the second Hittite vase discovered depicting dancers, musicians and acrobats. The artwork is clearly in Anatolian style and not an import from Minoan Crete, the area mostly associated with bull-leaping

Bull-leaping

Bull-leaping is a motif of Middle Bronze Age figurative art, notably of Minoan Crete, but also found in Hittite Anatolia, the Levant, Bactria and the Indus Valley. It is often interpreted as a depiction of a ritual performed in connection with bull worship...

. It shows thirteen figures, with two in the act of somersaulting over the bull.

• Yildirim, Tayfun, Yörüklü/Hüseyindede: Eine neue hethitische Siedlung im Südwesten von Çorum, Istanbuler Mitteilungen (ISSN 0341-9142) 50 (2000), 43-62.
• Sipahi, Tunç, New Evidence From Anatolia Regarding Bull Leaping Scenes in the Art of the Aegean and the Near East, Anatolica 27 (2001), 107-125.