The stele in 1882 used as a headstone in a cemetery near Izgın village ( Khramanmaraş province). This limestone high ca 2,5 m stele is all around with a Late Hittite - Luwian hieroglyphic inscription. There are two texts. the bigger one covering sides C-B-A have one continuous text - Izgın I. Text on the side D - Izgın II seems to be continuation. Unfortunately because of the lack of some part it is impossible to say with absolute certainty. According the inscription this stele was erected by a ruler of Malatya (Malizi) named Taras(?) for building a city/settlement named Taita(?) and talks about extention of boundaries1. Izgın Stele dates to the Xth century BC.
References
- ↑John David Hawkins,Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions, Inscription of the Iron Age, De Gruyter, 2000, p. 314 nn