Bar-Rakib inscriptions
The Bar-Rakib inscriptions are a group of 8th-century BC steles, or fragments of steles, of List of [Neo-Hittite kings|King Bar-Rakib], from Sam'al.
The inscriptions were discovered during the 1888–1911 German Oriental Society expeditions led by Felix [von Luschan] and Robert Koldewey.
Their Aramaic inscriptions are written in Luwian-style raised characters, and represent some of the first known inscriptions to use Imperial Aramaic. Older inscriptions found at Sam'al were written in the "Samalian language" or the Phoenician language.