Stele of Ördek-Burnu
Stele of Ordek-Burnu in the Istanbul Museum of the Ancient Orient
Created	c. 850 BC
Discovered	before 2014
Present location	Istanbul,Turkey

An undeciphered alphabeticstele found inÖrdek-Burnu, 20 km south ofSam'al (8 miles south ofZinjirli) in what is now northernSyria, dates to the 9th century BCE. The language of the inscription is difficult to interpret. It contains Semitic words but is not grammatically Semitic, and may be a mixture ofLuwian and aSemitic language.^[1] It is kept inIstanbul.

• Mark Lidzbarski:VI. Die Stele von Ördek-burnu. Ephemeris für Semitische Epigraphik III. Giessen 1915, pp. 192–206, pls. 13–15.
• André Lemaire and Benjamin Sass:The Mortuary Stele with Sam’alian Inscription from Ördekburnu near Zincirli, in:BASOR 369, 2013, pp. 57–136.

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