A New Inscribed Bowl in Ankara Museum
Abstract
This note publishes the inscription on a bronze bowl that was acquired by Ankara Museum of Anatolian Civilisations in 2008. The bowl was found together with a number of other bronze objects, which remain unpublished. The inscription identifies the bowl with the otherwise unattested personal name Za/iza/iya, a charioteer, and qualifies its function with an obscure phrase, for which only a tentative interpretation is offered here. The note is concluded by summarising the clear patterns of similarities and differences between the hieroglyphic inscriptions on bowls from the Late Bronze Age compared to those of the Iron Age.
Keywords
Ankara Museum of Anatolian Civilisations, Bronze object, Inscription
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