Taçın

The badly damaged single-line Hieroglyphic Luwian inscription was first reported in 1950 by H. Th. Bossert. It was located on a rock named Beşiktaş by a spring near the village of Taçın (now Topsöğüt) in Bünyan, Kayseri. The inscription appears to have recorded the unreadable names of two kings, a son and his father: "...su, King, son of ...x-ti, King, Hero." It is also uncertain whether the "king" signs originally had a "great" attribute on top.
It was a relief-style inscription, but P. Meriggi notes that the "son" (INFANS) sign was incised. Unfortunately, by the 1980s, the rock was completely destroyed during road work. Although Bossert had suggested a date in the Empire period, what had remained of the signs does not match any of the Empire period kings. A date around the 12th or 11th century BCE, from the Empire to the Neo-Hittite transition period, might be more plausible.


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