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Karatepe bilingual
The Karatepe bilingual, also known as the Karatepe-Aslantaş inscription, is a Phoenician–Hieroglyphic Luwian inscription of the official Azatiwada, carved at Karatepe in Cilicia in the late 8th century BC and pivotal to deciphering Hieroglyphic Luwian.
Kesecek Köyü inscription
The Kesecek Köyü inscription is an Aramaic funerary relief inscription from cliffs above the Cydnus river near Tarsus, Cilicia, now held in the Yale Babylonian Collection.
Kilamuwa inscription
The Kilamuwa inscription, also called the Kulamuwa stele and cataloged as KAI 24, is a 9th-century BC Phoenician royal inscription of King Kilamuwa of Sam'al, found at Zincirli in 1902.
Kilamuwa sceptre
The Kilamuwa sceptre is a small gold object found at Zincirli, ancient Sam'al, engraved with a short 9th-century BC West Semitic inscription naming Kilamuwa, son of Ḥayya, king of Sam'al.
Kummuh
Kummuh, also Kummuhu, was a Neo-Hittite kingdom on the upper Euphrates in later Commagene, with its capital at Samosata, annexed by Sargon II in 708 BC.
Kuttamuwa Stele
The Kuttamuwa Stele, also spelled Katumuwa Stele, is an eighth-century BCE basalt funerary stele from Zincirli, Turkey, whose inscription asks for offerings to Kuttamuwa's soul.
Luhuti
Luhuti, also known as Lu'ash, was an Iron Age Aramaean kingdom in northern Syria, with its capital Hazrek usually identified with Tell Afis near Aleppo.
Marash lion
The Marash lion is a basalt gate lion from Kahramanmaraş, capital of the Neo-Hittite kingdom of Gurgum, inscribed for King Halparuntiyas III and found in 1883.
Melqart Stele
The Melqart Stele, also known as the Bar-Hadad stele, is a basalt Aramaic votive stele erected to the god Melqart by Bir-Hadad, king of Aram, found near Aleppo in 1939.
Neirab stelae
The Neirab stelae are two 7th-century BC Aramaic funerary stelae of two priests of the moon god Sahar, found near Aleppo and kept in the Louvre.
Old Aramaic
Old Aramaic is the earliest attested stage of the Aramaic language, known from inscriptions of the Aramean states of Syria from about 900 to 600 BC.
Palistin
Palistin, also read Walistin, was an early Iron Age Syro-Hittite kingdom in the 'Amuq plain of north Syria, probably ruled from Tell Tayinat under King Taita.
Panamuwa stele
The Panamuwa stele, or Panamuwa inscription, comprises two eighth-century BCE Sam'alian royal memorial inscriptions from Zincirli, ancient Sam'al, commemorating kings Panamuwa I and Panamuwa II.
Que
Que (Assyrian Quwê; Luwian Ḫiyawa) was a Neo-Hittite kingdom of the Cilician plain around modern Adana in southern Turkey, annexed by Assyria in the late eighth century BC.
Sakçagözü steles
The Sakçagözü steles (Sakçe Gözü steles) are Neo-Hittite reliefs of the 8th century BC from Coba Höyük near Sakçagözü, Gaziantep province, southeastern Turkey, excavated by John Garstang in 1908 and 1911.
Samalian language
Samʾalian, also spelled Sam'alian, is the Northwest Semitic language of the Iron Age kingdom of Sam'al at Zincirli in the northern Levant, known chiefly from royal and mortuary inscriptions of the eighth century BC.
Sefire Steles
The Sefire Steles are three basalt stelae from Sefire near Aleppo, Syria, inscribed in Old Aramaic with a mid-8th-century BC vassal treaty between Bar-ga'yah of KTK and Mati'el of Arpad.
Šinuḫtu
Šinuḫtu (also written Shinuhtu) was a small Neo-Hittite kingdom in the Tabal region of southern Anatolia, whose king Kiyakiya was exiled by Sargon II around 718 BC.
Stele of Ördek-Burnu
The Stele of Ördek-Burnu is a basalt mortuary stele of the Iron Age kingdom of Sam'al, found in 1888 near Zincirli in southern Turkey and now held in the Istanbul Archaeological Museums.
Suhis inscription
The Suhis inscription is a Hieroglyphic Luwian royal building text carved on the Long Wall of Sculpture at Carchemish by Suhi II, who ruled the city around 950 BC.
Syro-Hittite states
The Syro-Hittite states, also called Neo-Hittite kingdoms, were Iron Age kingdoms of northern Syria and southeast Anatolia that emerged after the Hittite empire collapsed around 1200 BC.
Tel Dan Stele
The Tel Dan Stele, also called the House of David inscription, is a 9th-century BC Aramaic victory stele found at Tel Dan in northern Israel in 1993–94.
Tell Ahmar inscriptions
The Tell Ahmar inscriptions, also called the Til Barsip Luwian inscriptions, are Hieroglyphic Luwian stelae of the 10th and 9th centuries BC erected by the rulers of Masuwari, Assyria's Til-Barsip, on the Euphrates in Syria.
Tell Fekheriye bilingual
The Tell Fekheriye bilingual, or Fakhariyah inscription, is a 9th-century BC Akkadian–Aramaic inscription on a basalt statue of ruler Haddu-yith'i, found in northeastern Syria in 1979.
Tell Tayinat inscriptions
The Tell Tayinat inscriptions, or Tayinat Luwian inscriptions, are Hieroglyphic Luwian royal inscriptions of the Iron Age kingdom Assyrians called Patina, whose capital Kunulua stood at Tell Tayinat.
Zakkur Stele
The Zakkur Stele, also known as the Zakir Stele, is an Old Aramaic royal inscription of Zakkur, king of Hamath, found at Tell Afis, Syria, in 1903.
Zobah
Zobah, also called Aram-Zobah, was an Aramean kingdom of southern Syria, north of Damascus, which peaked under King Hadadezer and was defeated by King David of Israel in the 10th century BC.