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Hiyawa/Kawa and its Neighbours – The Border Marker Monuments of Arsuz, Hasanbeyli, İncirlik and Cebelireis in their Historical Contexts
The marking of borders and areas of influence by means of stelae, inscriptions or rock reliefs had a tradition in the Ancient Near East dating back to the 3rd millennium BCE and is especially attested for the 1st millennium BCE. Often those monuments are difficult to identify as such or to place in their historical context due to unclear find contexts. These problems, but also the possibilities of a corresponding interpretation, will be demonstrated on the example of a series of monuments dating to the 10th–8th century BCE from the territory of the Iron Age kingdom of Hiyawa/Kawa in Plain Cilicia.