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Location:

  • Türkiye, Yaylayolu
  • geo:38.098526,34.683174
  • Location uncertain

Period or year:

  • -700~ / unknown

Class:

  • Relief, votiv stone or altar
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=25823

Annotations

The lower portion of a basalt stele with the Late Hittite inscription. According to the place of discovery (the exact circumstances of the find  are not known. Only the origin from Veliisa (today Yaylayolu), 15 kilometers north of  Niğde  is documented by the first publication by the Polish-US American ancient orientalist Ignace Gelb), the stele is assigned to the Iron Age Luwian Kingdom of Tuwana and based on the form and style of the script, J.D. Hawkins places the document in the late 8th century BC. His translation:

  [Tarhun]zas came well for me, and for me [ he did] all good...

  1. John David Hawkins: Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions. Vol. I: Inscriptions of the Iron Age. Part 2: Text. Amuq, Aleppo, Hama, Tabal, Assur Letters, Miscellaneous, Seals, Indices. (= Studies in Indo-European Language and Culture 8). de Gruyter, Berlin u. a. 2000, p. 529 Nr. X.49 Taf. 30

Nearby

Çavdarlı, Niğde - Andabalis (6 km)

Roman settlement modern Andaval - Aktaş. Andavalis / Addaualis / Ambavalis.

Andabalis (10 km)

Maniso

Andaval Stele [Aktas] (10 km)

Stele was re-used in the floor of the church at Andaval [modern Aktaş village]. Currently the stele is housed in Ankara; in Nigde Museum is only a copy. Spolia.


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