Taçın rock inscription

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Coordinates: 38 ° 49 ′ 12 ″  N , 36 ° 4 ′ 36 ″  E

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The rock inscription from Taçın was a Hittite inscription in central Turkey . It was destroyed in the course of road works.

The inscription was on a hill called Beşiktaş near Topsöğüt (formerly Taçın) in the Bünyan district of the Kayseri province . The German archaeologist Helmuth Theodor Bossert discovered the writing in 1947 near a source. It was a one-line text in Luwian hieroglyphics , which was executed in raised relief. The remaining text was badly damaged. It contained two royal names, whether they were great kings could no longer be determined. Bossert held an origin in the 2nd millennium BC. For possible.

When Eberhard P. Rossner visited the place in 1987, he was able to find the hill and the spring, but all of the surrounding stones had fallen victim to construction machinery.

literature

  • Helmuth Theodor Bossert: Travel report from Anatolia. In: Orientalia. Nova Series, Volume 19, Number 4, 1950, pp. 506-507.
  • Eberhard P. Rossner: Rock monuments in Turkey. Volume 1: The Hittite rock reliefs in Turkey. An archaeological guide. 2nd, expanded edition, Rossner, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-924390-02-9 , p. 235.

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