Inscription Ancoz 5
An inscription in Luwian hieroglyphs from the 9th / 8th centuries is used as Ancoz 5 . Century BC Chr. From the commagenic settlement hill Ancoz , which is exhibited in the Archaeological Museum Adıyaman .
Research history
The location of the inscription is on the hill Han Mevkii , about one kilometer southwest 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 remains of a classic building from the Commagene era were found there, in which several hieroglyphic stones were built in for re-use. The Turkish prehistorian Mehmet Özdoğan was the first to see and describe the stone as part of the Lower Euphrates Survey in 1975 and 1977. In the course of rescue excavations for the construction of the Ataturk Dam , the Hittiteologist Sedat Alp examined the hill in 1979. As a result, Ancoz 5 was brought to the Archaeological Museum of Adıyaman with further inscription stones, where it was given inventory number 364. After publications by Özdoğan and Alp, the British Hittitologist John David Hawkins saw the stone there in 1990 and included it in his Corpus of hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions . Massimo Poetto was able to clean the inscription in 2000 and publish a new edition of the text.
description
The block has a height of 0.74 meters, a preserved width of 1.24 meters and is 0.44 meters thick. The upper left corner and an indefinable part on the right side are missing. On the left the lower part of a figure is preserved in relief on a recessed surface. To the right of this is a two-line inscription in Luwian hieroglyphs with a line height of 0.20 meters, including a free area with the height of one line. On the left side, the remains of two characters can still be seen, which probably belong to the second line.
The figure facing to the right has been preserved up to the waist; it originally filled the entire height of the stone block. She is dressed in an ankle-length robe in the Assyrian style with fringes, the fringed edges of which are folded over one another at the front. She holds a staff in front of her. The feet show the shoes with upturned tips known from Hittite reliefs. Who the figure represents cannot be determined.
The inscription is executed in relief and - after cleaning by Poetto - is preserved in an easily legible condition. The top line is left-handed, the bottom right-handed. From the remnants on the left side it can possibly be concluded that the text of the first line skipped the figure at the left end, was continued on the page and from there ended with the second line, then skipping the picture again, on the front. The upper line is incomplete on both sides, the part on the side of the lower line is missing on the left and an indefinable part on the right. The text mentions in the first line the gods known from other Ancoz inscriptions, the deer god CERVUS ( Runtiya ), Kubaba , Taskus and a mountain called Hurtula, which is also known from the inscriptions Ancoz 8 and Ancoz 10 . Since it is referred to here as " this mountain Hurtula", Hawkins assumes that it is the mountain on which the find mound Han Mevkii lies and that there was a sacred precinct of the deer god. According to Hawkins' first translation, the second line names Hattusilis, the son of Suppiluliuma, according to which the latter as Suppiluliuma , ruler of Kummuh 805-773 BC. Was identified. According to the new translation by Poetto, however, the relationship between the two is reversed, so that it could be a different father-son pair of the same name. Finally, servants of the Suppiluliuma and a Tarhunti are mentioned. By comparison with the other inscriptions found in Ancoz, the document is dated to the 9th or 8th century BC. Dated.
Front with inscription (all upside down)
figure
Detail of the inscription
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. 349-350, plates 175-176.
- Massimo Poetto: L'iscrizione luvio-geroglifica ANCOZ 5 (A) rivista e completata In: René Lebrun, Julien De Vos (ed.): Hethitica XVI: Studia Anatolica in memoriam Erich Neu dicata , Peeters, Louvain-la-Neuve 2010 p 131-142.
- J. David Hawkins: Gods of Commagene: The cult of the Stag-God in the inscriptions of Ancoz ; in Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum et al .: Diversity and Standardization Akademie Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-05-005756-9 . Pp. 65-80.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Mehmet Özdoğan: Lower Euphrates Basin 1977 Survey Middle East Technical University, Lower Euphrates Project Publications, Series I, No. 2, Istanbul 1977 p. 101
- ^ Sedat Alp: Ancoz Excavations, 1979 In: Lower Euphrates Project 1978-79 Activities Middle East Technical University Lower Euphrates Project Publications, series I no. 3; Ankara 1987 pp. 61-64
- ↑ John David Hawkins: Gods of Commagene: The cult of the Stag-God in the inscriptions of Ancoz ; in Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum et al .: Diversity and Standardization Akademie Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-05-005756-9 . P. 72