Pancarlı

Pancarlı Höyük lies just about 1 km southeast of Zincirli. Several monumental stone fragments had already been reported in 1930 by von der Osten, one of which is an orthostat showing a male figure, possibly a god, holding a wild animal by the tail with his left hand and an axe on his raised right hand. The basalt piece is about 1.08 meters high and 1.03 meters wide and currently on display in the Adana Museum. Other fragments mentioned by von der Osten include a relief fragment showing the lower part of a male figure with a short tunic, belt, and tassel, and another with the face of a lion in high relief, but today the whereabouts of these items are not clear.

In 2006 an inscribed drum-shaped stone block was found by Mehmet Kaya among the rocks that were piled to mark field boundaries near the mound of Pancarlı. The block seems to be a part of the lower section of a colossal statue, possibly of an early ruler of Sam'al (see Zincirli). It bears parts of 3 lines of a Hieroglyphic Luwian inscription, which seem to be about dedication of and offerings to the statue. A date in the 10th to 9th century BCE has been suggested, which makes it one of the latest dating Luwian inscriptions from the Islahiye valley.


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