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Porsuk Inscription
This is a limestone building block about 1.30 meter by 0.75 meter in face and about 0.5 meter in depth. It has a single line of hieroglyphic Luwian inscription on the front face. It was found sometime before 1960 near Zeyve Höyük, a little south of the village of Porsuk in Niğde province. The inscription indicates that the author Parhwiras is an army commander. It is dated to the Neo-Hittite period but a more specific dating is not possible. Currently in Niğde museum.
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Image sources:
Bora Bilgin, 2008.
John D. Hawkins, Anatolian Studies, Vol. 19, (1969), pp. 99-109