Identification Number: 03TR11U04stn04, 03TR11U08stn10 and 03TR11U08stn18

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: Relief sculpture and Paleo-Phrygian inscription fragment

Material: Sandstone

Images

Photograph 05dpnk0104 by Murat Akar.Drawing by Carrie Van Horn.

Description

‘Three joining fragments belonging to the middle of the front face of the block. Height: 11 cm. Length: 15 cm. Fragments found separately on 19, 20, and 22 July 2003 in lower, burned parts of the rubble fill in the west part of Trench 11 (units 4 and 8). Preserves the end and beginning parts of two words running left to right. Under the two confronted feet are the end of one word: “…oitio” and the beginning of another: “vos…,” apparently separated by a vertical line of incised dots.‘

Dimensions

Length: 75 mm; Width: 6 mm

Context

Palatial Complex, Monumental Entrance. In lower, burned parts of the rubble fill in the west part of Trench 11 (units 4 and 8).

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.