eCUT A 05-022 (CTU A 05-022)

Obverse
o 1’o 1’

dḫal-[di-ni-ni]

(o 1’) [. . . Through the great]ness of the god Ḫal[di]

o 2’2’

[al-su-i]-ši-i-[ni]

o 3’3’

[m]-nu-ú-a-ni

(o 3’) (I am) [Mi]nua, son of Išpuini,

o 4’4’

[m]-pu-ú-i-ni-e-[ḫé]

o 5’5’

[MAN] tar-a-i-[e]

(o 5’) strong king, great king, king of the Bia lands,

o 6’6’

[MAN] al-su-i-ni

o 7’7’

[MAN KUR].bi-i-a-i-na-ú-[e]

o 8’8’

[a]-lu-si URU.ṭu--pa-a [URU]

(o 8’) lord of Ṭušpa-City.

Reverse
r 1’r 1’

[m]-nu-a-še a-li-[e]

(r 1’) Minua say[s]: (As for the one) who [de]stroys this inscription, (as for the one) who [da]mages it,

r 2’2’

[a]-lu-še i-ni DUB-[te]

r 3’3’

[]-li-e a-lu-še

r 4’4’

[pi]--li-i-e

(r 4’) (as for the one) who makes anyone else do these things, (as for the one) who says:

r 5’5’

[a]-lu-še a-i-ni-[i]

r 6’6’

[i]-ni-li du-li-[e]

r 7’7’

[a]-lu-še ú-li-[e-še]

r 8’8’

[ti]-ú-li-i-e

r 9’9’

[i]-e-še i-ni

(r 9’) “I dug this canal”

r 10’10’

[pi]-li a-gu-bi

r 11’11’

[]-ú-ri-ni-ni

(r 11’) may the god Ḫaldi, the Weather-God,

r 12’12’

[d]ḫal-di-še dIM-[še]

r 13’13’

[d]UTU-ni-še DINGIR.MEŠ-[še]

(r 13’) the Sun-God, and (all other) gods,

r 14’14’

[ma]-a-ni dUTU-ni

(r 14’) annihilate him under the sun! . . . (rest of the curse formula untranslatable)

r 15’15’

[pi]-i-ni -[i]

r 16’16’

ar-ḫi ú-ru-li-ia-[ni]

r 17’17’

[]-i i-na-i-[ni]

r 18’18’

[]-i na-a-ra-[a]

r 19’19’

[a]-ú-i-e ú-lu-[li-e]


Based on Mirjo Salvini, Corpus dei Testi Urartei (CTU), Volume I–V, 2008–2018: Adapted, revised, lemmatized, and translated into English, by Birgit Christiansen (2016-) for the Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), a corpus-building initiative funded by LMU Munich and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (through the establishment of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair for Ancient History of the Near and Middle East) and based at the Historisches Seminar - Abteilung Alte Geschichte of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/ecut/Q006920/.