Gözne Boundary Stone

Inscribed stone found in southern Turkey From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Gözne Boundary Stone is an Aramaic inscription found in situ in 1907 near the village of Gözne in Southern Anatolia, by John Renwick Metheny. It was first published by James Alan Montgomery.^[1]^[2]

Inscription copy from 1907

Translations

James Alan Montgomery transliterated and translated the inscription as follows:^[1]

עד תנה תחום רנל

ומן זי את תצבו

פנלה בעל שמין

רבא שהר ושמש

ולזרעא זי לה

ʿd tnh tḥwm rnl

wmn zy ʾt tṣbw

pnlh bʿl šmyn

rbʾ šhr wšmš

wlzrʿʾ zy lh

Up to here the boundary of RNL

And whoever thou art who wilt [destroy, over-

whelm] him Be'el-Samen

the great, Moon and Sun,

and his seed

Gallery

Sketch of inscription
Metheny's map of the region, showing the area of the inscription.

Bibliography

Metheny, J.R., "Road Notes from Cilicia and North Syria." JAOS 28 (1907): 155–63
Montgomery, James A., "Report on an Aramaic Boundary Inscription in Cilicia." JAOS 28 (1907): 164–67 + 1 pl.
Halévy, J., "Une inscription bornaire araméenne de Cilicie." RevSém 16 (1908b): 434–37
Hanson, R.S., "Aramaic Funerary and Boundary Inscriptions from Asia Minor." BASOR 192 (1968): 3–11. Kesecek Daskyleion LimBil GozBdSt

References

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