Inscription Ancoz 9
An inscription in Luwian hieroglyphs from the 9th / 8th centuries is used as Ancoz 9 . Century BC Chr. From the commagenic settlement hill Ancoz in today's Turkey, 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 683. It was first published in 2000 by John David Hawkins in his Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions , where it was named Ancoz 9 .
description
The stone block is damaged on both sides, the upper and lower edges have been preserved. It is 0.71 meters high, 0.52 meters thick and has a maximum width of 0.46 meters. The front bears a two-line inscription with a line height of 20 centimeters. The inscription, like the line separator, is executed in relief. A large part of the upper line has broken off, the second line is well preserved. 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. The top line cannot be read because of the damage. The bottom line lists several deities and mentions a gazelle as a sacrifice. The Hawkins translation is:
"...] (to) the great Storm-God of Heaven , the god ..., the god Sarrumas mountain-king, the goddess Alasuwas, the god ... 1 gazelle they shall offer ..."
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 , p. 359 plates 187-188.
