Stele by Tünp
The Tünp stele is a Hittite monument in the museum in Gaziantep . It was found in 1965 in Yazılı , then Tünp , south of the Turkish city. The 90 cm high piece is described in four lines with Luwian hieroglyphs . It served as a deed for a sales contract between two private landowners. Presumably it dates from the middle of the 8th century BC. Chr.
literature
- John David Hawkins : Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions I: Inscriptions of the Iron Age 1. Text. Introduction, Karatepe, Karkamiš, Tell Ahmar, Maraş, Malatya, Commagene (= Studies in Indo-European Language and Culture 8) , pp. 154–156. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2000, ISBN 3-11-010864-X .