Kuttamuwa stele | |
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![]() The Kuttamuwa stele in the Gaziantep Museum of Archaeology | |
Material | Basalt |
Size | 3 ft x 2 ft |
Weight | 800 lbs |
Writing | Aramaic |
Created | 8th century BCE |
Period/culture | Iron Age |
Discovered | 2008 Sam'al |
The Kuttamuwa stele is an 800-pound basalt funerary stele with an Aramaic inscription referring to Kuttamuwa, an 8th-century BCE royal official. It was found in Sam'al, in southeastern Turkey, in 2008, by the Neubauer Expedition of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago.