Emirgazi Altar A is a round black basalt altar with Hieroglyphic Luwian inscription dedicated to a divine mountain. It idates to the second half of the 13th century BC for the King Tudhaliya IV (r. c. 1237–1209 BC) is mentioned in the text as the dedicator It is currently housed in the Istanbul Museum. The exact location is unknown. It has been found in a secondary context at small village Kıçıkışla (today Eskikışla) ca 1905.
See:
- http://www.hittitemonuments.com/emirgazi/
- Fred Woudhuizen, The Luwian Hieroglyphic Inscriptions of the Emirgazi Stonein: Ancient West & East vol.1, 2002, pp. 67-86 - http://www.academia.edu/19399374
- Cigdem Maner, Preliminary Report on the third season of the Kenya-Eregli survey (Keyar) 2015, Anatolia Antiqua XXIII (2016), pp. 225 -252 - https://www.academia.edu/27731526
- idem: Preliminary Report on the Second Season of the Konya-Ereğli Survey (KEYAR), Anatolia Antiqua 2014, https://journals.openedition.org/anatoliaantiqua/361
- J. D. Hawkins, "Tudhaliya the Hunter," FsDeRoos, 2006, pp. 49-76.
- idem, "Appendix 2. EMIRGAZI altars," in The hieroglyphic inscription of the Sacred Pool Complex at Hattusa (Sudburg), StBoT Beiheft 3, 1995, pp. 86-102.
- idem: Hittite Monuments and Their Sanctity, in: Sacred Landscapes of Hittites and Luwians: Proceedings of the International Conference in Honour of Franca Pecchioli Daddi Florence, February 6th-8th 2014, p. 4-6
- E. Masson, "Les inscriptions louvites hiéroglyphiques d'Emirgazi," Journal des Savants, 1979, pp. 3-49.
- idem, "The Luwian Hieroglyphic Inscriptions of the Emirgazi Stone Altars," in Ancient West and East vol.1, 2002, pp. 67-86.
