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Körkün Stele

Basalt stele with a relief of Storm-God in front and hieroglyphic luwian inscriptions was found in 1967 in a vineyard near Körkün village about 20km sourtheast of Gaziantep. Dedicatory inscription of a person named Kazupis(?) from the reign of Astiru(wa)s, king of Karkamış, late 9th century BCE. The stele is currently in Gaziantep Museum.


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Image sources:
Bora Bilgin, 2009
John David Hawkins, Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions. 2000.