The Hasanbeyli inscription is a

Phoenician inscription The Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions, also known as Northwest Semitic inscriptions, are the primary extra-Biblical source for understanding of the society and history of the ancient Phoenicians, Hebrews and Arameans. Semitic inscriptions may occ ...

on a basalt stone discovered in the village of

Hasanbeyli Hasanbeyli is a town and district of Osmaniye Province in the Mediterranean region of Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, tran ...

, on the western slopes of the Amanus Mountains, in 1894. Charles Clermont-Ganneau
L'INSCRIPTION PHÉNICIENNE DE HASSAN-BEYLI
Études d'archéologie orientale It was discovered by

Felix von Luschan Felix Ritter von Luschan (11 August 1854 – 7 February 1924) was an Austrian doctor, anthropologist, explorer, archaeologist and ethnographer. Life Luschan was born the son of a lawyer in Hollabrunn, Lower Austria, and attended the Akademisches ...

, who had been excavating at nearby Zincirli. The Phoenician inscription is 5 lines long, and mentions the "king of the city of Adana", the "king of Assur" and "Awariku" (also on the Karatepe inscription). A short Greek inscription with two crosses has been overlaid; it is thought that it was used as a boundary marker during Byzantine times. It has been dated to the 8th century BC. The stele measures 42 x 34 x 23 cm. It is currently in the

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. The inscription is known as KAI 23.

Bibliography

* Sachau
Baal-Harrän in einer Altaramäischen Inschrift auf einem Relief des Königlichen Museums zu Berlin
* * Lemaire, A. "L'inscription phénicienne de Hassan-Beyli reconsidérée," Rivista di studi fenici 11: 9–19

References

{{reflist Phoenician inscriptions Archaeological artifacts Phoenician steles