Taçın

The badly damaged single-line Hieroglyphic Luwian inscription was first reported in 1950 by H. Th. Bossert. It was located on a rock named Beşiktaş by a spring near the village of Taçın (now Topsöğüt) in Bünyan, Kayseri. The inscription appears to have recorded the unreadable names of two kings, a son and his father: "...su, King, son of ...x-ti, King, Hero." It is also uncertain whether the "king" signs originally had a "great" attribute on top.
The inscription was executed in relief, though P. Meriggi notes that the "son" (INFANS) sign was incised. Unfortunately, the rock was completely destroyed during road work by the 1980s. While Bossert had suggested a date in the Empire period, the surviving signs do not match those of any known Empire-period king. A date around the 12th or 11th century BCE, from the transition between the Empire and Neo-Hittite periods, might be more plausible.


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