Halet Çambel unearthed In 1982 on the south slope of the hill an 80 cm tall stele depicting a horThere were several portal lions and a few highly eroded steles.It dates around the 9th or 8th century BC a little earlier than karatepe itself.
Sources:
- Çambel, H. Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions, Vol. 2: Karatepe-Aslantaş, Berlin. 1999: 1–11, 94–95 and plts. 122–25.
- J. D. Hawkins, Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions, Vol 1, Berlin, 2000: 71.
- Winfried Orthmann, Untersuchungen zur späthethitischen Kunst, Bonn, 1971: 110–12, 482–83, Taf. 6.
