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Stele of Kuttamuwa

Turkey

The Kuttamuwa stele is an 800-pound (360 kg) basalt funerary stele with an Aramaic inscription referring to Kuttamuwa, an 8th-century BCE royal official. It was found in Samʾal, in southeastern Turkey, in 2008, by the Neubauer Expedition of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago.

Monument data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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