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Funerary(?) Stele (YUNUS 3)

The lower half of a basalt stele depicts a male figure in relief and bears a partially preserved three-line Hieroglyphic Luwian inscription. Reportedly discovered at Yunus necropolis, approximately 0.5 km northwest of Karkamış, the stele stands about 1 meter tall and 70 cm wide. Stylistic analysis suggests a date in the first half of the 8th century BCE. It is housed in the Anatolian Civilizations Museum in Ankara.


T. Bilgin, 2014 T. Bilgin, 2014 Drawing of the inscription - J. D. Hawkins, 2000


Literature:
Hawkins, J. D. Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions, Vol 1, Berlin, 2000: 189 and plt. 70. (KARKAMIŠ A15c)
Hawkins, J. D. Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions, Vol 3, Berlin, 2024: 214, 316. (KARKAMIŠ A15c)
Orthmann, W. Untersuchungen zur späthethitischen Kunst, Bonn, 1971. (Karkemis L/3)
Peker, H. Texts from Kerkemish I. Luwian Hieroglyphic Inscriptions from the 2011–2015 Excavations, OLSM 1, Bologna, 2016: 45–46, 61–62 and plt. 35.
(List of Abbreviations)


Image sources:
Tayfun Bilgin, 2014.
J. David Hawkins, 2000.