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:
- https://www.hittitemonuments.com/meharde/index.htm
- John David Hawkins: The Lower Part of the Meharde Stele, Anatolian Studies, vol. 38, 1988, pp. 187–190. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3642851.
- 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
- 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
Referenzen
- ↑J.D. Hawkins, 2000, p.416
