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Inscribed Stone Bowl Fragment (BEIRUT)

The fragment with a partial Luwian inscription belongs to the edge section of a stone bowl. There is no information on its find place and current whereabouts, and it is known only from photographs that surfaced in the Beirut antiquities market; hence, the fragment is labeled in the literature as BEIRUT. However, stylistically it is very similar to Karkamış inscriptions and may have originated from there. The inscription mentions a person named Iya and offerings to deities Santa, Kubaba, and Karhuha.


BEIRUT - J. D. Hawkins, 2000


Literature:
Hawkins, J. D. Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions, Vol 1, Berlin, 2000: 558–59 and plt. 317. (BEIRUT)
Hawkins, J. D. Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions, Vol 3, Berlin, 2024: 289, 350. (BEIRUT)


Image sources:
J. David Hawkins, 2000.