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Senzar Stele

Location:

  • Syrian Arab Republic, Shayzar
  • geo:35.261837,36.568027
  • Location uncertain

Class:

  • Relief, votiv stone or altar
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=42248

Annotations

The Merhade Stele depicts a female figure (probably depicting the Queen) and hieroglyphic Luwian inscription. Taita the Walastinean king dedicated this stela to a goddess named "Queen of the Land". J. D. Hawkins dated Meharde stele to 900-700 BC1.

See:

  1. https://www.hittitemonuments.com/meharde/index.htm
  2. John David Hawkins: The Lower Part of the Meharde Stele, Anatolian Studies, vol. 38, 1988, pp. 187–190. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3642851.
  3. idem, 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, pp. 415-419
  4. Pavel Cech, What if Goliath were David? Taita, King of the Palistineans in: Manfred Oeming and Petr Sláma eds., A King like All the Nations?, LIT Verlag Münster, 2015, pp. 63-73

References

  1. J.D. Hawkins, 2000, p.416


Nearby

Senzar Stele - Kupapiya Stele [Sheizar]

Luwian stele from Senzar / Sezar. Modern Shayzar/Shaizar

First Assasines and then Arab castle Qalaat Sheizar

First Assasines and then Arab castle Qalaat Sheizar


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