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Karkemis South GateYunus Stele (Karkemish)Hittite Warrior IXth c. BC

Location:

  • Syrian Arab Republic, Jarābulus
  • geo:36.829567,38.016796
  • Location ± 5-25 m.

Period or year:

  • -975~ / unknown

Class:

  • Relief, votiv stone or altar
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=43385

Annotations

Basalt stela dedicated by Suhi I to the great king of Karkemish Uratarhunta, ca. 975 BC., found on the southern slope of the acropolis during the italian-turkish 2011 campaign. Currently as KH.11.O.400 kept in the Museum of  Gaziantep.  The stele commemorates a victory by “the Great King Ura-Tarhunta, king of the land of Karkemish” and had been set up by Suhi I, “the ruler, the Country Lord of the city of Karkemish”1

Gaziantep

See:

  1. A. Dinçol, B. Dinçol, J. D. Hawkins, Nicolò Marchetti, H. Peker: A Stele by Suhi I from Karkemish, Orientalia 83,  2014, pp. 143-153 [https://www.academia.edu/12474231]
  2. idem. A New Stele from Karkemish: At the Origins of the Suhi-Katuwa Dynasty, in: Karkemish. An Ancient Capital on the Euphrates. OrientLab 2, Bologna Ante Quem 2014, pp. 127-131 [http://www.orientlab.net/pubs/pdf/Karkemish_OrientLab2_lt.pdf]

References

  1. A. Dincol et all. 2014, p. 147


Nearby

Karkemish, Storm-God Temple

Late Bronze Age temple.

Lower Palace

Lower Palace


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