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Stele

The bottom half of a basalt stele was reportedly found sometime before 1911 in the Silsile/Sinsile village, now known as Soylu, about 8 km to the west of Karkamış. The rectangular gap on the left side is also due to subsequent damage. It has the last 6 lines of a badly preserved inscription (KARKAMIŠ A15a = SİLSİLE 1). Currently in the Anatolian Civilizations Museum in Ankara.


KARKAMIŠ A15a - B. Bilgin, 2022 KARKAMIŠ A15a - B. Bilgin, 2022 KARKAMIŠ A15a - B. Bilgin, 2022 KARKAMIŠ A15a drawing - J. D. Hawkins, 2000


Literature:
Hawkins, J. D. Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions, Vol 1, Berlin, 2000: 188-89 and plts. 68-69. (KARKAMIŠ A15a)
Hawkins, J. D. Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions, Vol 3, Berlin, 2024: 213, 316. (KARKAMIŠ A15a)
Peker, H. Anadolu Hiyeroglif Yazılı Belgeler 1: Geç Hitit Karkamış Krallığı Yazıtları, Bologna, 2022: 49–50.


Image sources:
Bora Bilgin, 2022.
J. David Hawkins, 2000.