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Çiftlik
This is a roughly hemicylindrical block with a flat front. It was found in a house in 1933 in the Çiftlikköy village of Yeşilhisar in Kayseri province and very close to Eğriköy. Block is about 71 cm tall and 43 cm wide. Flat front side has a male figure with a badly damaged head. The inscriptions on this side are also in bad shape but the eight lines of script on the back are almost fully preserved. It is written by a servant of Tuwatis (see Kululu) and makes dedications to Tarhunzas, Hebat and other gods for for some buildings. Dated to mid 8th cent BCE. It is currently in Kayseri Museum.
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the translation by Hawkins:
Image sources:
Tayfun Bilgin, 2006.
Gelb,Ignace Jay. 1939. Hittite Hieroglyphic Monuments. (OIP, 45.) Chicago.
John David Hawkins, Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions. 2000.
I (am) (... Tuwatis's servant.
This .. Tuwatis built.
[and this...] neither (his) fathers [built].
[nor] did (his) grandfather build [it].
(but) Tuwatis built it, Tarhunzas's servant.
There [...] he gave(?) [...]of Tarhunzas, Sarhutas and Sarrumas.
but above is Uru(hi)has Tarhunzas.
Here Tarhunzas and Hebat sit(s).
(and here) Ea and Ku(baba) sit(s).
and here Saarumas and Alasuvas sit(s).
For(?) Tuwatis may also these gods come well,
and to him to eat and to drink, and to him life of person (lit. "head") may they give,
and to him long days,
[may] all the gods give these to him!
...] Tarhunzas [...
...
And I myself built myself a house
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