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Funerary Stele (YUNUS 1)

The rectangular basalt stele with a couple of lines of Hieroglyphic Luwian inscription identifies the owners as Ta(sa) and Sarpuwani, who were apparently interpreters. The stele is 107 cm high, 65 cm wide, and 38 cm thick. It was found in 2010 as reused in a Roman period tomb in Yunus Höyük, which lies about 0.5 km to the northwest of Karkamış. Currently in the Gaziantep Archaeology Museum.


Front view of the stele, photo by F. Anıl, 2018 Close up of the two line iniscription - T. Bilgin, 2019 Drawing of the inscription - H. Peker, 2014


Literature:
Hawkins, J. D. Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions, Vol 3, Berlin, 2024: 117-–18 and plt. 83. (YUNUS 1)
Peker, H. "A Funerary Stele from Yunus (Karkemish)," Orientalia 83, 2014: 189-93 and plts. XVII-XVIII.


Image sources:
Figen Anıl, 2018.
Tayfun Bilgin, 2019.
Hasan Peker, 2014.