Tarhunpias` Stela is ta funerary stele of a child named Tarhunpias as indicates the inscription above his head. He was depicted standing on her mother's lap. The box he holds contains a stylus and papirus or leather sheets. The hawk or falcon on the left hand of the boy is a symbol of hunting. The hair style of the boy indicates the VIIIth century BC as time of making. According W. Orthmann it is Maras stele D/4. Hawkins MARAŞ 9. Currently in Louvre Museum.
See:
- Winfried Orthmann: Untersuchungen zur späthethitischen Kunst. (= Saarbrücker Beiträge zur Altertumskunde Bd. 8) Habelt, Bonn 1971, p. 85f, D/4
- http://www.tayproject.org/TAYages.fm$Retrieve?CagNo=9924&html=ages_detail_e.html&layout=web
- https://www.hittitemonuments.com/maras/
- Sigfried J. de Laet, Ahmad Hasan Dani, History of Humanity: From the third millennium to the seventh century B.C., UNESCO 1994, pp, 1323, 1331
- John David Hawkins: Corpus of hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions. Vol 1. Inscriptions of the Iron Age. Part 1: Text: Introduction, Karatepe, Karkamiš, Tell Ahmar, Maraş, Malatya, Commagene. de Gruyter, Berlin 2000
