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Karahöyük (Elbistan) Stele

About 2.7 meter hight stele containing 8 lines of luwian hieroglyph script on the front face and one line each on the right and left sides. It was excavated in situ at Karahöyük near Elbistan in 1947. Late Hittite but archaic style writing dates it to about 12th cent BCE. The script is a dedication to a local Storm God by Armananis, an offical of a Great King named Ir-Teshub(?). It is currently in Anatolian Civilizations Museum.


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J.D.Hawkins



Image sources:
Tayfun Bilgin, 2006.
John David Hawkins, Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions. 2000.