TÜRKÇE
Stele
The basalt stele shows a seated woman holding a mirror in her right hand and a lyre in her out streched left hand, with a bird perched on the lyre. There is a smaller female, perhaps a child, on her lap. The stele is 56 cm high and 50 cm wide. Stylistically, it may date to around 950-875 BCE. There is no information about the find place, but the stele must have been found in the city of Maraş. In the 1880s it came into the possession of the American mission in Maraş. In 1891 it was acquired by the New York Metropolitan Museum from Rev. William H. Ward.
