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Karabel relief

13th century BCE · 13th century BCE · Also known as Karabel monument

The Karabel relief is a Late Bronze Age rock carving at the Karabel pass near Izmir in western Turkey, showing a warrior with bow and spear accompanied by a Luwian hieroglyphic inscription. Herodotus took it for an image of the Egyptian king Sesostris. A reading of the inscription published in 1998 identified the figure as Tarkasnawa, king of Mira, a vassal of the Hittites, which helped fix the location of the Arzawa lands in western Anatolia.

Karabel relief
Image: Klaus-Peter Simon · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Karabel relief. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/karabel-relief
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