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| Keywords: Anatolian - Seal of Tarkummuwa, King of Mera - Walters 571512.jpg Hittite hieroglyphs surround a figure in royal dress The inscription repeated in cuneiform around the rim gives the seal owner's name the Hittite ruler Tarkummuwa This famous bilingual inscription provided the first clues for deciphering Hittite hieroglyphs ca 1400 BC Hittite silver cm 1 4 2 accession number 57 1512 5130 Found at Smyrna ca 1850 Iovanoff Constantinople Dikran Kelekian New York and Paris Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1925 Translation In heiroglyphics Tarkummuwa King of Mera The Taste of Maryland Art Collecting in Maryland 1800-1934 The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1984 place of origin Anatolia Turkey Walters Art Museum license Anatolian hieroglyphs Luwian hieroglyphs on media Cuneiform on media Hittite seals Hittite art Hittite language Hittite Empire Ancient Near East art in the Walters Art Museum Anatolia Cuneiform on seals Seal of Tarkummuwa 14th-century BC inscriptions Archaeological seals device Archaeological multilingual inscriptions Art from Smyrna Silver objects Stamp seals of archaeology | ||||
