eCUT A 08-17 (CTU A 08-17)
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The text is known from two stone blocks from the fortress of Arin-berd. Both exemplars bear exactly the same text. | ||
11 | (1) Through the greatness of the god Ḫaldi Argišti, son of Minua, built this fortress to perfection. | |
22 | ||
33 | ||
44 | (4) I gave it the name "the City Erbuni" for the protection of the Bia lands and for the intimidation of the enemy land. | |
55 | ||
66 | ||
77 | (7) Argišti says: the land was deserted, I accomplished mighty undertakings here. | |
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99 | ||
1010 | (10) Through the greatness of the god Ḫaldi (I am) Argišti, son of Minua, strong king, king of the Bia lands, lord of Ṭušpa-City. | |
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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/Q007018/.