Identification Number: 03TR11U03stn05 and 04TR16U08stn01

Kerkenes Inventory ID: K03.168 and Yozgat Museum Registration Number 1579

Classification: Stone / Sculpture and Inscription

Finding Type: Inscription and Small-scale Relief Sculpture

Item: Paleo-Phrygian inscription fragment

Material: Sandstone

Images

Photograph 05dpnk0106 by Murat Akar.Drawing by Carrie Van Horn.

Description

Three joining fragments attributed to the central part of the top front edge of the block. Fragments found separately, two in the rubble fill of Trench 11 (unit 3) on 19 July 2003, and another in Trench 16 (unit 8) on 28 July 2004. The fragments preserve parts of three words running right to left, with lunate sigma separators.

Dimensions

Length: 30 mm. Width: 65 mm.

Context

Palatial Complex, Monumental Entrance. Rubble fill. Underneath and to east of where tree was.

Publication

For a full description see Catherine M. Draycott and Geoffrey D. Summers, Sculpture and Inscriptions from the Monumental Entrance to the Palatial Complex at Kerkenes Dağ, Turkey. Chicago: Oriental Institute, 2008.