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Funerary(?) Stele

Th bottom half of a basalt stele shows the relief of a male figure and a partially preserved 3-line Luwian inscription. It was reportedly found at Yunus Höyük about 1.5 km northwest of Karkamış. The stele is about 1 meter in height and 70 cm in width and stylistically may date to the first half of the 8th century BCE. Currently in the Anatolian Civilizations Museum in Ankara.


T. Bilgin, 2014 T. Bilgin, 2014 Drawing of the inscription - J. D. Hawkins, 2000


Literature:
Hawkins, J. D. Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions, Vol 1, Berlin, 2000: 189 and plt. 70. (KARKAMIŠ A15c)
Hawkins, J. D. Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions, Vol 3, Berlin, 2024: 214, 316. (KARKAMIŠ A15c)
Orthmann, W. Untersuchungen zur späthethitischen Kunst, Bonn, 1971. (Karkemis L/3)
Peker, H. Texts from Kerkemish I. Luwian Hieroglyphic Inscriptions from the 2011–2015 Excavations (OLSM 1), Bologna, 2016: 44–45, 61–62 and plt. 35.

Image sources:
Tayfun Bilgin, 2014.
J. David Hawkins, 2000.