The Mortuary Stele with Samʾalian Inscription from Ördekburnu near Zincirli

Abstract

For more than a century, the alphabetic inscription on the early-first-millennium Ördekburnu stele has defied decipherment. In 1915, Lidzbarski labeled the language of the hardly legible text non-Semitic, and most specialists have followed suit. We present a new collation of the stele, with a drawing, and a partial transliteration and translation of the Samʾalian text.

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