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Stele of Tudhaliya IV (BOĞAZKÖY 18)

The limestone stele was found in 1983 as used in the walls of the Byzantine church built on top of the ruins of Temple 16 in the Upper Town. On the stele, below a winged sun disk is the aedicula of Tudhaliya IV, followed by his genealogy naming his father Hattusili III, his grandfather Mursili II, and a forefather Tudhaliya (either I. or II.). Its bottom section is broken. The stele is displayed in the Çorum Museum.


BOĞAZKÖY 18 - T. Bilgin, 2014


Literature:
Cammarosano, M. Hittite Local Cults, Atlanta, 2018: 80–83.
Hawkins, J. D. Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions, Vol 3, Berlin, 2024: 40–41 and plt. 28.
Neve, P. "Ausgrabungen in Boğazköy-Hattuša 1983," Archäologischer Anzeiger 1984: 329–81 (336–37).


Image sources:
Tayfun Bilgin, 2014.