Inscription Ancoz 10
An inscription in Luwian hieroglyphics from the 9th / 8th centuries is used as Ancoz 10 . Century BC Chr. From the commagenic settlement hill Ancoz , which is exhibited in the Archaeological Museum Adıyaman .
origin
The inscription stone was found in 1979 by the Turkish Hittiteologist Sedat Alp during his excavations on the hill of Ancoz. The hill is located near the present-day village of Eskitaş in the district of Kâhta in the Turkish province of Adıyaman . It was in use from the Neo-Hittite period (1200–700 BC) and belonged to the Iron Age kingdom of Kummuh , which roughly corresponds to the later Commagene. The inscription is located in the Archaeological Museum of the provincial capital Adıyaman and has the inventory number 485. It was first published in 2000 by John David Hawkins in his Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions , where it was named Ancoz 10 .
description
The fragment is the broken front of a stone block with both sides and the lower edge missing. A piece of the upper edge has been preserved. It is 0.5 meters high, 0.13 meters thick and has a maximum preserved width of 0.66 meters. The front bears a two-line inscription with a line height of 15-16 centimeters. The inscription, like the line separator, is executed in relief. The text is well preserved, the lower part of the stone is blank. A piece of a raised frame can be seen above the top line.
The upper line of the text is written to the left, the lower line to the right. The second line is unusually divided into sections by two vertical tick marks, apparently to separate individual offerings to the gods. There is talk of sacrifices to various deities. The sun god , the gods Ikuras and Taskus, the mountain Hurtula and the deer god are mentioned . A gazelle is mentioned twice as a victim. The name of the author is missing. In connection with the inscription Ancoz 7 , which comes from King Suppiluliuma , Hawkins dates the inscription to the late 9th or early 8th century BC. Chr.
literature
- John David Hawkins: Corpus of hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions . Vol 1. Inscriptions of the Iron Age . Part 1: Introduction, Karatepe, Karkamiš, Tell Ahmar, Maraş, Malatya, Commagene. de Gruyter, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-11-010864-X , pp. 359-360, plates 187-188.
