Kuttamuwa

Kuttamuwa: Kuttamuwa was an 8th century BC royal official from Sam'al who ordered an inscribed stele, that was to be erected upon his death. The inscription requested that his mourners commemorate his life and his afterlife with feasts "for my soul that is in this stele". It is one of the earliest references to a soul as a separate entity from the body. The 800-pound basalt stele is three feet tall and two feet wide. It was uncovered in the third season of excavations by the Neubauer Expedition of the Oriental Institute in Chicago, Illinois.^[1] The official publication of the artifact is expected in the end of 2009.

References

^ "Found: An Ancient Monument to the Soul". New York Times. November 17, 2008. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/science/18soul.html?8dpc=&_r=1&pagewanted=all. Retrieved 2008-11-18. "In a mountainous kingdom in what is now southeastern Turkey, there lived in the eighth century B.C. a royal official, Kuttamuwa, who oversaw the completion of an inscribed stone monument, or stele, to be erected upon his death. The words instructed mourners to commemorate his life and afterlife with feasts “for my soul that is in this stele.”"

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8th-century BC people

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