Inscription Ancoz 8
An inscription in Luwian hieroglyphics from the 9th / 8th centuries is used as Ancoz 8 . 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 Kâhta district of the Turkish province of Adıyaman , it is now flooded by the Ataturk reservoir . 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 outside the Archaeological Museum of the provincial capital Adıyaman and has the inventory number 682. It was first published in 2000 by John David Hawkins in his Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions , where it was named Ancoz 8 .
description
The stone block is damaged on both sides, the upper and lower edges have been preserved. It is 0.75 meters high, 0.40 meters thick and has a maximum width of 0.93 meters. The back is roughly worked, the front bears a two-line inscription with a line height of 20 centimeters. The mostly well-preserved inscription is, like the line separator, executed in relief. The lower part of the stone is unlabeled.
The upper line of the text is written to the left, the lower line to the right. Since unknown parts are missing on the right and left, no contextual connection between the lines can be seen. The upper one mentions Mount Hurtula, and the lower one reports activities of two servants named Ihawarpamis and Saluwa. The name of the author is missing. In connection with the inscription Ancoz 7 , which comes from King Suppiluliuma , Hawkins dates it 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. 358–359, plates 187–188.
