eCUT A 08-16 (CTU A 08-16)


Obverse
11	^dḫal-di-ni-ni al-su-ú-i-ši-ni	(1) Through the greatness of the god Ḫaldi Argišti, son of Minua, says:
22	^mar-giš-ti-še ^mmì-nu-a-ḫi-ni-še
33	a-li-e É.GAL ba-du-ú-si-i-e
44	ši-i-di-iš-tú-ú-bi te-ru-ú-bi
55	^mar-gi-iš-ti-ḫi-ni-li ti-i-ni	(5b) I built a fortress to perfection, I gave it the name the Argištinian. The land was deserted, nothing had (ever) been built here (before).
66	qi-ú-ra-a-ni qu-ul-di-ni ma-a-nu
77	ú-i gi-i iš-ti-ni ši-da-ú-ri
88	ÍD.mu-na-a-ni 4 ⸢PA₅⸣.MEŠ a-gu-bi	(8) From the river I dug four canals, I planted vineyards and orchards I accomplished (great) undertakings here.
99	GIŠ.ul-di-e GIŠ.za-a-ri-e te-ru-bi
1010	za-du-bi ar-ni-ši-ni-li iš-ti-ni
1111	^mar-gi-iš-ti-ni ^mmì-nu-a-ḫi	(11) (I am) Argišti, son of Minua, strong king, great king, king of the Bia lands, lord of Ṭušpa-City.
1212	MAN DAN-NU MAN al-su-ú-i-ni-e
1313	MAN KUR.bi-i-a-i-na-a-ú-e
1414	a-lu-si URU.ṭu-uš-pa-a-e URU

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/Q007017/.