Statue Maraş 13
The statue with the designation Maraş 13 in the Corpus of hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions is in the Archaeological Museum of Kahramanmaraş in Turkey and has the inventory number 2215.
The basalt statue dates from the late Hittite period and was found in the village of Hasanlı in the vicinity of Kahramanmaraş (formerly Maraş). The headless sculpture is roughly life-size. A male figure is shown, possibly a ruler. The figure is dressed in a long cloak with short sleeves reaching to the ankles, from under which the feet protrude. The arms are bent horizontally in front of the body, the hands hold a rod-like structure vertically downwards, of which only traces can be seen. On the left hip the person carries a sword in a sheath with a hanging tassel.
On the right side of the body, below the arm, a field 1.34 meters high and 0.32 meters wide with the remains of an inscription in Luwian hieroglyphs is carved. The inscription is three lines and presumably continued on the reverse, where no traces can be seen. According to John David Hawkins , who included the text in his Corpus of hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions , the writing begins at the top right with the introductory amu-figure , where amu denotes the EGO sign ("I") of Luwian hieroglyphic writing and continues to the left and continues in bustrophedon form to break off at the left end of the third line. According to Hawkins, the translation of the text fragment is:
I (am) [...
...] ... I took away, and this [...
The statue was first published in 1979 by Massimo Poetto. It is assigned to the neo-Hittite city-state of Gurgum and dates back to the 9th century BC. Dated.
Left side with sword
inscription
literature
- Massimo Poetto: Una nuova iscrizione luvio-geroglifica del museo di Maras . In: Onofrio Carruba (Ed.): Studia mediterranea Piero Meriggi dicata (= Studia Mediterranea Vol. 1). Pavia 1979, pp. 501-507.
- 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. 276-277, plate 128.