Senzar Stele - Kupapiya Stele [Sheizar]

The Senzar Stele discovered in two pieces, upper part in Beirut Museum and lower in Hama Museum. Stele is covered with a hieroglyphic Luwian inscription dates to XI century BC. This funeray stela was fdedicated to Kupapiya, the wife of Taita, the Hero of the country Walastin¹. J. D. Hawkins dated Meharde stele to 900-700 BC ² .

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
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

Bronnen

1. ↑John David Hawkins 1988 and 2000
2. ↑J.D. Hawkins, 2000, p.416