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Erkilet Inscriptions
Two unshaped basalt blocks with inscriptions were both found in Erkilet, about 20 km. north of Kayseri in about 1932. They are 89x76 cm and 81x63 cm in size and the texts are complete. Both of them are currently in Kayseri Museum. Hawkins gives the translation for Erkilet 1: "Huhasarma the god Marutika's PUTITI-. This stone I myself carved, and let no one overturn this!" and for Erkilet 2: "Astiwasu erected this ALA-, and let no one overturn this!". They are estimated to be from the 8th century BCE.

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Erkilet 1

Erkilet 2

Literature:
Hawkins, J. D. Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions, Vol 1, Berlin, 2000: 493–95 and plt. 275.

Image sources:
Ertuğrul Anıl, 2011, 2016.
Tayfun Bilgin, 2006.
Ignace J. Gelb, Hittite Hieroglyphic Monuments, (OIP 45) Chicago, 1939.
J. David Hawkins, 2000.

Erkilet Inscriptions Two unshaped basalt blocks with inscriptions were both found in Erkilet, about 20 km. north of Kayseri in about 1932. They are 89x76 cm and 81x63 cm in size and the texts are complete. Both of them are currently in Kayseri Museum. Hawkins gives the translation for Erkilet 1: "Huhasarma the god Marutika's PUTITI-. This stone I myself carved, and let no one overturn this!" and for Erkilet 2: "Astiwasu erected this ALA-, and let no one overturn this!". They are estimated to be from the 8th century BCE. Click on the pictures for larger images.
Erkilet 1

Erkilet 2