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Boybeypınarı Inscriptions

In the early 1930s four large basalt blocks with Hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions were found near the village of Boybeypınarı in the province of Adıyaman. Blocks were found as reused as construction material in a Classical era wall. The blocks form two pairs (Boybeypınarı I and Boybeypınarı II) that serve as some sort of podium of a monumental structure. The first image at the last row below shows the arrangement of the blocks as proposed by John D. Hawkins. The first pair has one line and the second pair has three lines of Hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions circling the blocks. The texts are dedications to goddess Kubaba by Panamuwati, wife of the Kummuh king Suppiluliuma of the early 8th century BCE. Currently in the Anatolian Civilizations Museum in Ankara.


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The blocks as used in a later period building foundation - H. H. von der Osten, 1933 The blocks as used in a later period building foundation - H. H. von der Osten, 1933 Boybeypınarı blocks in Ankara Museum - B. Bilgin, 2008 Boybeypınarı blocks in Ankara Museum - B. Bilgin, 2022

Blok I and II
Block I-A - B. Bilgin, 2022 Block I-B - B. Bilgin, 2022 Block I-D - T. Bilgin, 2014     Block II-D & C - T. Bilgin, 2014 Block II-C & B - B. Bilgin, 2008 Block II-C - B. Bilgin, 2022

Blok III and IV
Blok III-C & B - B. Bilgin, 2008 Block III-C - B. Bilgin, 2022 Block III-B - B. Bilgin, 2022 Block III-A - B. Bilgin, 2022     Block IV-D & C - B. Bilgin, 2008 Block IV-D - B. Bilgin, 2022 Block IV-C - B. Bilgin, 2022 Block IV-B - B. Bilgin, 2022

A schema of the proposed arrangement of the blocks - J. D. Hawkins, 2000 Boybeypınarı 1 (I-II) - J. D. Hawkins, 2000 Boybeypınarı 2 (III-IV) - J. D. Hawkins, 2000


Literature:
Hawkins, J. D. Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions, Vol 1, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2000: 330-40 and plt. 165.
Hawkins, J. D. Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions, Vol 3, Berlin, 2024: 238–40, 328.


Image sources:
Hans Henning von der Osten, Discoveries in Anatolia 1930-31, Chicago, 1933.
Bora Bilgin, 2008, 2022.
Tayfun Bilgin, 2014.
J. David Hawkins, 2000.