HIEROGLYPHIC LUWIAN INSCRIPTION
In 2000, archeologist Anneliese Peschlow-Bindokat discovered a group of lightly carved hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions on the back wall of a rock shelter at Suratkaya, at 1000 meter attitude in the Beşparmak Mountain (ancient Latmos), near the Bafa lake (old Gulf of Latmos). The inscription consists of five signs covering a 12 by 4-meter rock surface—the signs starting from the left mention Mira’s Land, while others give some princes’ names. The principal and the most evident sign show the name of Kupaya, and it is suggested that it could be Kupanta-Kurunta. Kupanta-Kurunta was the adopted son of Mira King, Mashuiluwa, married to a Hittite princess, the daughter of Suppiluliuma I. The sign and inscription, accompanied by the Great Prince’s title, date to the end of the 14th c. BCE.