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Fun fact: the update consists primarily of a Luwian and a Lydian curse formula
During the 8th century BCE, the Hieroglyphic Luwian inscription KULULU 2 associated the Dark Gods with the war-god Sanda, who was himself similar to Iyarri. The KAYSERİ inscription also mentions the Dark God in a curse formula reading: Hieroglyphic Luwian text 𔖖𔓢𔕙𔖪𔗆 𔐓𔕸𔗆𔖱𔓯 𔔼𔐤𔕸𔖱𔕐 𔔴𔑢𔑉𔑣𔕐 𔖖𔒅𔗑𔓁𔓁𔗐𔗔𔕸𔓁𔑢𔑰 𔖖𔓵𔗧...-𔗔 ... x𔗑 𔓁𔑢𔑻 ... 𔕐𔑷𔖹𔓊𔑣𔕸𔓁𔑢𔗬𔑰... 𔓁𔐞𔗷 𔖖𔗜𔒚𔕸𔕸𔗔𔗷 𔐣𔐤 𔐝𔗬𔓯 Transliteration Tarḫunzas abassari naPari tubidi Marwawannis=ba=wa=du=tta Nikkaruḫas [... wa=du [... ] istaraladi=ba=wa=du=ada=tta...] a=wa=an=tta Kubabas appan muwai Translation [him] Tarḫunzas shall smite with his axe, for him may Nika[ruḫa]s of the Maruwa ("Dark God") [...], and for him [... and for him they [shall come up(?)] from their throne, [and him] Kubaba shall attack behind In a 6th century BCE inscription from Lydia, the Mariwdas or Mariwyas were mentioned as minor demon-like figures who accompanied the god Sãntas, appearing in a curse formula on a tomb, reading: Lydian text 𐤱𐤠𐤨𐤪𐤷 𐤮𐤵𐤫𐤯𐤠𐤮 𐤨𐤰𐤱𐤠𐤥𐤨 𐤪𐤠𐤭𐤦𐤥𐤣𐤠𐤨 𐤶𐤫𐤳𐤷𐤦𐤡𐤦𐤣 Transliteration fak=mλ Sãntas Kufaw(s)=k Mariwda(š)=k ẽnšλip[id] Translation To him, Sãntas and Kufaws and the Dark Gods shall do harm
November 4, 2026 at 6:41 PM
women-archeopal.bsky.social
For this #FossilFriday we present Halet Çambel. She excavated Karatepe, whose bilingual inscriptions helped decipher Luwian hieroglyphs, and co-founded the excavations at Çayönü, key to the origins of farming. A pioneer of archaeology and heritage protection in Turkey. #WomenInArchaeology
For this #FossilFriday we present Halet Çambel. She excavated Karatepe, whose bilingual inscriptions helped decipher Luwian hieroglyphs, and co-founded the excavations at Çayönü, key to the origins of farming. A pioneer of archaeology and heritage protection in Turkey. #WomenInArchaeology
October 30, 2026 at 10:23 AM
olawikander.bsky.social
Heheh, not to be "that guy", but Luwian walwa/i-, "lion", perhaps from *wlkwo- ... and all that.
October 23, 2026 at 4:14 PM
iacobuscaesar.bsky.social
Mel gonna be out here posting “send Luwian BF” in the middle of an archaeological museum or some shit.
October 17, 2026 at 7:29 PM
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Annick Payne
Iron Age Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions
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October 10, 2026 at 1:02 AM
beantowndoggo.bsky.social
Nolan should have done the Odyssey in the traditional Luwian, Greek, or Etruscan (as to which language was spoken is unknown) in order to be "authentic"...would have been a fun subtitle environment (which we all know viewers love)
September 22, 2026 at 10:03 PM
thejerusalempost.bsky.social
Report: Turkish archaeologists uncovered a rare early Christian gold amulet, possibly containing a biblical passage, and a 3,500-year-old seal with Luwian hieroglyphics at the Turkmen Karahoyuk site.
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Christian protection amulet, stone seal found in Turkey | The Jerusalem Post
“Inside a copper box, we found an extremely thin gold sheet, only 0.1 millimeters thick, most likely carrying a passage from the Bible,” said Michele Ruzgar Massa of Bilkent University.
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September 18, 2026 at 6:51 AM
travishedgecoke.bsky.social
Pihassassi is a Luwian-Hittite storm god whose name derives from lightning and who has potentially lent that name to the Pegasus, who traditionally could bring lightning to Zeus and whose footfalls caused springs to rise from the earth.
September 17, 2026 at 11:48 PM
begus.bsky.social
Unusual pathways will be increasingly important.

Here’s what to do in the age of AI proofs.

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Study something unusual, such as Hieroglyphic Luwian
I was recently asked what advice I have for students interested in research. This is my response.
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September 10, 2026 at 10:03 PM
arby-k.bsky.social
Researchers interpreting the Luwian text concluded that the king was claiming victory over territory associated with the Cilician plain, Adana and Hiyawa.

Luwian Hieroglyphs on 2,900-Year-Old Steles Reveal a Forgotten Iron Age King

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Luwian Hieroglyphs on 2,900-Year-Old Steles Reveal a Forgotten Iron Age King | Anatolian Archaeology
Luwian hieroglyphs on 2,900-year-old Arsuz Steles reveal Iron Age king Suppiluliuma, his divine claims, and campaigns toward...
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September 9, 2026 at 3:42 AM
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Türkmen Karahöyük has been proposed as a candidate for Tarhuntašša, an important Hittite royal center whose exact location remains unknown.

3,500-Year-Old Luwian Seal Naming Bronze Age Official Found at Türkmen Karahöyük

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3,500-Year-Old Luwian Seal Naming Bronze Age Official Found at Türkmen Karahöyük | Anatolian Archaeology
A 3,500-year-old Luwian seal naming the official Kurunti-ziti has been discovered at Türkmen Karahöyük, revealing Bronze Age...
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September 6, 2026 at 2:04 PM
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September 6, 2026 at 9:47 PM
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#OTD 110 years ago, Halet Çambel (1916–2014) was born 🎉 Archaeologist and Luwian expert who played a central role in the decipherment of the Anatolian hieroglyphs. She was also the first Muslim woman to compete at the Olympics, where she fenced.

#LinguisticBirthdays #WomenInLinguistics #Histlx
August 27, 2026 at 6:24 AM
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Luwian Hieroglyphs on 2,900-Year-Old Steles Reveal a Forgotten Iron Age King

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Luwian Hieroglyphs on 2,900-Year-Old Steles Reveal a Forgotten Iron Age King | Anatolian Archaeology
Luwian hieroglyphs on 2,900-year-old Arsuz Steles reveal Iron Age king Suppiluliuma, his divine claims, and campaigns toward...
www.anatolianarchaeology.net
August 18, 2026 at 5:48 PM
fileretmos.bsky.social
Texto da inscrição seguindo o Hawkins (Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions v1.1, p.516f.)
Inscrição em Lúvio Hieroglífico transliterado para alfabeto latino This (is) the great Tarhunzas of Warpalawas. For him let him/them put long(?) SAHANA. This is the image of Warpalawas, the Hero, ... (or: This image Warpalawas, the hero, ....). Tiyamartus Warpalawas' beloved (?) ... carved it...
May 31, 2026 at 4:11 PM
fileretmos.bsky.social
The Bilgin family is doing such a great job documenting the luwian inscriptions, it is astonishing. The bibliography is great, the pictures are better than those at Hawkins' CHLI. When I lectured a course on Hier.Luwian they were very helpful providing high res pics.
May 31, 2026 at 4:07 PM
fileretmos.bsky.social
Escavado em 2012 por uma expedição da Universidade de Toronto. Tá no volume 3 do Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions do Hawkins.
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Tayinat Archaeological Project
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January 16, 2026 at 11:42 PM
fileretmos.bsky.social
Luwian is always the right choice.
October 25, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Two Finds, 2,000 Years Apart, From the Same Turkish Mound

Archaeologists at Turkmen Karahoyuk in central Turkey uncovered a 3,500-year-old Hieroglyphic Luwian seal bearing an official's name and title, and a 4th-5th century gold amulet believed to contain a biblical passage that belonged to a…
Two Finds, 2,000 Years Apart, From the Same Turkish Mound
Archaeologists at Turkmen Karahoyuk in central Turkey uncovered a 3,500-year-old Hieroglyphic Luwian seal bearing an official's name and title, and a 4th-5th century gold amulet believed to contain a biblical passage that belonged to a child. The two finds are separated by nearly two millennia.
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July 27, 2026 at 1:15 PM
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February 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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It’s weird because the alphabet doesn‘t include pictograms and both Hittite and Luwian do, right? (I‘m not a huge language person, so I had to look up images of all three)
October 2, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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New research challenges the long-held view that Assyria invented cavalry warfare. Evidence now points to Aramean and Luwian states of the Syrian-Anatolian world developing true cavalry by the 10th century BCE, reshaping how we understand ancient military innovation.
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Archaeological evidence places the origin of cavalry in the Aramean and Luwian states of the Iron Age, half a century before the Assyrians
For centuries, the image of the powerful Assyrian army with its war chariots and horsemen has dominated our understanding of ancient warfare. A widely held theory suggested that the Assyrians were…
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December 28, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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The only way to make it “accurate” would be dialogue entirely in Mycenean and Luwian/Hittite, everyone wearing the pimped out feather headdresses and tube armor and wielding funky axes, with long interstitials saying “There is no archeological consensus for how [Event X] happened, if at all.”
July 22, 2026 at 3:46 PM
dhul-qarnayn.bsky.social
cool when are they going to shoot it with a script entirely in reconstructed Mycenean Greek and Luwian/Hittite? i need to hear these descriptions in the original language (not Homer's barbaric Ionic-Aeolic patois, thank you very much). otherwise i'm not sure what the point is tbh
February 2, 2026 at 9:14 PM
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2026年7月27日
#考古学のおやつ 1/1
トルコ、コンヤ県（Konya ili）チュムラ郡（Çumra）のTürkmen-Karahöyük遺跡で、4～5世紀の初期キリスト教の銅製護符や、3500年前のルウィ語（Luwian）の石製印章。
[Türkiye Today]
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Rare Christian amulet, 3,500-year-old Luwian seal uncovered in Türkiye - Türkiye Today
Archaeologists uncovered rare gold Christian amulet and Luwian seals, revealing site’s ancient administrative role near Konya
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July 28, 2026 at 1:32 PM