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Afis, Stele of king Zakkur, with Aramaic inscriptionAfis, Funerary stele with relief of human figure with Aramaic inscription

Location:

  • Syrian Arab Republic, Afis
  • geo:35.905205,36.798782
  • Location ± 100-500 m.

Class:

  • Relief, votiv stone or altar
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=23465

Annotations

The Stele of Zakkur is a royal stele of King Zakkur/  who ruled in Hamath and Lu`ash  ca 805 - 775.  BC. The Stele was discovered in 1903 at Tell Afis by Henri Pognon.

See

  1. http://faculty.washington.edu/snoegel/PDFs/articles/Noegel%2047%20-%20ANEHST%202006b.pdf
  2. Henri Pognon, Inscriptions sémitiques de la Syrie, de la Mésopotamie et de la région de Mossoul, Imprimerie Nationale, Paris, 1907.
  3. Scott B. Noegel, The Zakkur Inscription, in: Mark W. Chavalas, ed. The Ancient Near East: Historical Sources in Translation. London: Blackwell (2006), pp. 307-311.
  4. - http://faculty.washington.edu/snoegel/PDFs/articles/Noegel%2047%20-%20ANEHST%202006b.pdf
  5.  John David Hawkins. Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions: Volume 1, Inscriptions of the Iron Age: Part I. New York 2000, pp. 400-401.

Relevant museums

Paris, Louvre

Paris, Louvre


Nearby

Tell Afis

Archaeological site in N Syria. Tel Afis.

Taftanaz (10 km)

Bronze Age town

Ebla, Aleppo Gate (11 km)

Tell Mardikh


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