Kuttamuwa stele

Kuttamuwa stele
The Kuttamuwa stele in the Gaziantep Museum of Archaeology
MaterialBasalt
Size3 ft x 2 ft
Weight800 lbs
WritingAramaic
Created8th century BCE
Period/cultureIron Age
Discovered2008
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.


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