Monuments of Sesostris
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H. Shliemann in "Ilios, the city and country of the trojans", NY 1881, p. 700 wrote:
Moreover, I had not then made the important discovery of the Hittite origin of the sculptures and inscriptions photographied or copied by Perrot and others at Eyuk and Boghaz Kioi (the ancient Pteria) on the Halys, at Ghiaur-Kalessi near the villages of Hoiadja and Kara-omerlu, 9 hours to the south-west of Angora (Ancyra), at a spot which commands the old road by Gordium from Ancyra to Pessinus, and above all at Kara-bel in Lydia, at the junction of the two roads from Ephesus to Phokaea and from Smyrna to Sardes, where in 1879 I had the satisfaction of finding a Hittite inscription accompanying one of the two figures supposed by Herodotus (ii. 106) to have been portraits of the Egyptian Sesostris.
The modern comments to Herodotus also state that Herodotus, II, 106 actually mentioned Hittite inscriptions in Sipylus and Kara-bel.
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With help from user4419802's answer I have found pictures of at least two of these monuments. The first (in Palestine) is at Nahr el-Kalb north of Beirut:
The other, known as the Karabel relief, is of the Hittite vassal king Tarkasnawa of Mira:
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