Stele Maraş 15
With Maraş 15 a Fragmented is late Hittite stele refers to that in the Archaeological Museum of the southern Turkish city of Kahramanmaras is issued under the inventory number 02/11/89.
The exact origin of the stele cannot be clarified. The British Hittite scientist John David Hawkins and his Turkish colleague Mustafa Kalaç visited the museum in the summer of 1987 after the fragment of the stele was delivered. He suspects that the piece came to light during excavation work at the foot of the castle of Kahramanmaraş (formerly Maraş). The only publication of the stele to date in the Corpus of hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions comes from both of them .
The fragment has a preserved height of 0.38 meters and a width of 0.66 meters. A woman's head and shoulders can be seen in relief on the smoothed front. She wears a high polo shirt , a cylinder-shaped headgear, with a rolled up veil and decorated hems. The depiction resembles another relief from Maraş, called Maraş 2 and exhibited in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum . There are two women sitting across from each other at a table. There are no traces of a second person at Maraş 15. Behind the head of the figure two Luwian hieroglyphics can be seen, which Hawkins translates as “This (is)”. He assumes that the rest of the inscription merely identified the person shown. From the shape of these signs and from other similarities to Maraş 2 , he concludes that they were dated to the 9th century BC. During this time, Kahramanmaraş was the capital of the neo-Hittite city-state of Gurgum .
literature
- John David Hawkins: Corpus of hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions . Volume 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. 281, plate 132.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Picture Maraş 2 in the Istanbul Museum
- ↑ The numbering follows Hawkins' Corpus of Hieroglyphic-Luwian Inscriptions .
