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BABYLON 3

The broken pieces of a basalt dedication bowl were found by Robert Koldewey during his excavations in Babylon at the turn of the 20th century. The 0.70 meter high bowl has a single line Hieroglyphic Luwian inscription which states, "These bowls Runtiya placed before Halebean Tarhunza (Storm God)." It is likely that the bowl was taken to Babylon from Aleppo after the conquest of the city in the Neo-Babylonian period. The bowl is in the Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin.

Inscribed dedication bowl - J. D. Hawkins, 2000 Hierolyphic Luwian inscription (BABYLON 3) - J. D. Hawkins, 2000


Literature:
Hawkins, J. D. Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions, Vol 1, Berlin, 2000: 396–97 and plt. 212.
Hawkins, J. D. Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions, Vol 3, Berlin, 2024: 251.
Payne, A. Iron Age Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions, Atlanta, 2012: 89.


Image sources:
J. David Hawkins, 2000.