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Erkilet Inscriptions

Two unshaped 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 I: "Huhasarmas the god Marutikas's PUTITI-. This stone I myself carved, and let no one overturn this!" and for Erkilet II: "This ALA- Astiwasus erected, and let no one overturn this!". They are estimated to be from 8th cent BCE.


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Erkilet I - T.Bilgin Erkilet I - T.Bilgin Erkilet II - E.Anıl Erkilet I - I.Gelb
Erkilet II - T.Bilgin Erkilet II - T.Bilgin Erkilet II - E.Anıl Erkilet II - I.Gelb



Image sources:
Tayfun Bilgin, 2006.
Ertuğrul Anıl, 2011.
Ignace Jay Gelb. 1939. Hittite Hieroglyphic Monuments. (OIP, 45.) Chicago.