Identification Number: 03TR11U08stn29, 03TR11U08stn34 and 04TR16U06stn02

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

Classification: Stone / Sculpture and Inscription

Finding Type: Inscription and Small-scale Relief Sculpture

Item: Inscription and Small-scale Relief Sculpture fragment

Material: Sandstone

Images

Photograph 04dpcs1210.Drawing by Carrie Van Horn.

Description

Three joining fragments showing a left wing, background, and a small fraction of the inscribed border above were found to join to the four fragments making up the upper left corner of the inscribed frame. Height of whole corner piece: 39.0 cm; width of whole: 16.0 cm. Height of wing: 5.8 cm; width of wing: 10.3 cm. Tip of the wing (03TR11U08stn29) and fanning surface fragment (03TR11U08stn34) was found on 22 July and 26 July 2003, respectively, in the burned debris fill above the pavement in Trench 11 (unit 8). The major part of the wing was found 22 July 2004 in yellow soil fill of Trench 16 (unit 6). The background just below the wing has broken off and some of the frame above the wing is broken. The right end of the wing and most of the surface of the right end is broken. A small piece of this surface was found and joined.

Dimensions

Length: 39 mm; Width: 27 mm; Thickness: 17 mm Length: 26 mm; Width: 20 mm; Thickness: 6 mm

Context

Palatial Complex, Monumental Entrance. In the burned debris fill above the pavement in Trench 11 (unit 8) and in yellow soil fill of Trench 16 (unit 6).

Publication

Draycott, Sculpture and Inscriptions, Chicago: OIP 2008.