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Karga

This approximately one-meter-high porphyry block was found in 1928 during a survey by the Oriental Institute in the village of Karga, where it was used as a cornerstone in a building. The flattened surface bears a partial hieroglyphic Luwian inscription that mentions an incomplete city name, a personal name (Lahi(ya)), and a title (Chief of the Palace Attendants (?)). The title is known to have been used by high-level Hittite officials. It is dated to the Hittite Empire period. The block was transferred in 1928 to Alişar and in 1932 to Augustus Temple in Ankara, and today it is in the possession of the Anatolian Civilizations Museum.


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from I. Gelb



Literature:
Gelb, I. J. Hittite Hieroglyphic Monuments. OIP 45, Chicago, 1939: 33–34 and plate LV.
Hawkins, J. D. Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions, Vol 3, Berlin, 2024: 98–99 and plt. 71.
Meriggi, P. Manuale di eteo geroglifico. Parte II: Testi 2a e 3a serie, Roma, 1975: 309.
Oreshko, R. "'The Achaean Hides, Caged in Yonder Beams’: The Value of Hieroglyphic Luwian Sign *429 Reconsidered and a New Light on the Cilician Ahhiyawa," KADMOS 52, 2013: 19–33 (24–25 ve not 25).
von der Osten, H. H. Explorations in Hittite Asia Minor 1927-28 (OIC 6), Chicago, 1929: 139–40.


Image sources:
Ignace J. Gelb, 1939.