eCUT A 08-13 (CTU A 08-13)

Obverse
11

dḫal-di-ni -ta-bi ma-[si-ni šú-ri-e]

(1) The god Ḫaldi set off [with his] weap[on].

22

ka-ru-ni KUR.ma-na-ni KUR-[ni-e?]

(2) He defeated the terr[itory?] of the land Mana, he defeated [the territory of th]e ’Ar[sita], he subjected it [to] Argišti.

33

ka-ru-ni mʾa-ar-[si-ta-ni KUR-ni]

44

te-qu-ni mar-gi--ti-[ka-a-i]

55

mar-gi--[ti-še a-li ḫa-ú-bi?]

(5) Argiš[ti says: I conquered (?)] the city Šimerḫadi[rni, royal city(?)].

66

URU.ši-me-ni-ḫa-di-ir-[ni URU MAN-nu-si]

77

már-giš-ti-ni MAN DAN-[NU a-lu-si URU.ṭu-]-pa URU

(7) (I am) Argišti, stro[ng] king, [lord of Ṭušp]a-Ci[ty].

88

mar-giš-ti-še a-li [a]-lu-še i-ni IM

(8) Argišti says: [(as for the one) who] destroys this inscription1, may the god Ḫaldi annihilate him under the sun (or, resp. the Sun-God) . . . (rest of the curse formula untranslatable).

99

-li-e -ri-ni-ni dḫal-di-še

1010

dUTU-ni pi-ni -i ar-ḫi u-ru-li-a-ni

1 Similar to Sarduri's inscription A 1-1 , the sumerogram IM (basic meaning : clay tablet ) is used here to denote the inscription.


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/Q007014/.