Stone and Rock Inscriptions A 8-20 - A 8-39
A 8-20
A 8-21
A 8-22
A 8-23
A 8-24
A 8-25
A 8-26
A 8-27
A 8-28
A 8-29
A 8-30
A 8-31
A 8-32
A 8-33
A 8-34
A 8-35
A 8-36
A 8-37
A 8-38
A 8-39
A 8-20
Description:
Stone block with building inscription (construction of the fortress Erebuni). It is still in situ on the left wall of the entrance of the fortress in Arin-berd/Erebuni.
Edition:
Access the edition [/ecut/Q007021/] of A 8-20.
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Dimensions:
height: 32 cm; width: 53 cm; height of lines: 3 cm
Concordance:
Salvini (2008 and 2018): CTU A 8-20 = Melikišvili (1971a): UKN II 390 = Arutjunjan (2001): KUKN 199
A 8-21
Description:
Basalt stone blocks with identical building inscription (construction of a susi-temple for the god Iubša); inscriptions of identical content are engraved in on each side of the entrance of the susi-temple in Arin-berd. It is still in situ.
Edition:
Access the edition [/ecut/Q007022/] of A 8-21.
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Dimensions:
duplicate A: height: 20.4 cm; width: 73.4 cm; height of lines 2.8 cm
duplicate B: height: 20.4 cm; width: 73.4 cm; height of lines: 2.7-3 cm
Bibliography:
Israeljan, Margarit A. (1957): Chram susi Arin-berda i ego nadpisi, Izvestija Akademii Nauk Armjanskoj SSR, 1957/9, 93-104.
Chodžaš, Svetlana I., Nadežda S. Truchtanova and Konstantin L. Oganesjan (1979): Erebuni. Pamjatnik Urartskogo zodčestva VIII-VI v. do n. e., Moskva (izd. Iskusstvo) 1979, 43.fig. 27-28.
Concordance:
Salvini (2008 and 2018): CTU A 8-21 A, B = Melikišvili (1971a): UKN II 396-397 = Arutjunjan (2001): KUKN 195-196
A 8-22
Description:
Basalt stone block with building inscription (building of a susi temple for the god Haldi and construction of the fortress Argištiḫinili). Provenience: Soğucak/Kepenek, now kept in the Cultural Museum (Kültür Müdürlüğü) of Muş.
Edition:
Access the edition [/ecut/Q007023/] of A 8-22.
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Dimensions:
height: 56 cm; width: 76.5 cm; depth: 50 cm; void space beneath the inscription: 13.5 cm; height of lines: 4.5 cm
Bibliography:
Kayalidere, R. Dan (2011): A foundation of Argišti I, King of Urartu, on the course of Murat Su (Eastern Euphrates). Con addendum di Mirjo Salvini, La Parola del Passato, fasc. 381, 2011, 431-441.
Koçhan, Nurettin and Mirjo Salvini (2000): A new Urartian Inscription from the Neighbourhood of Muş, Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici 42, 2000, 303-305 with photos in fig. 3.
Concordance:
Salvini (2008 and 2018): CTU A 8-22
A 8-23
Description:
Column bases with four fragmentary building inscriptions of the same content (construction of the temple of the god Haldi). Provenience: Arin-berd/Erebuni. Two of the column bases are still in situ, one is kept in the Museum of Erebuni (Erevan) and one in the Armenian History Museum (Erevan).
Edition:
Access the edition [/ecut/Q007024/] of A 8-23.
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Dimensions:
stone A: diameter: 81 cm; height: 73 cm; drum height: 30 cm; height of lines: 3.5 cm
stone B: diameter: 81 cm; height of lines: 3.5 cm
Bibliography:
Salvini, Mirjo (1969): Nuove iscrizioni urartee dagli scavi di Arin-berd, nell'Armenia Sovietica, Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici 9, 1969, 7-24 (photo at tab. IV).
Arutjunjan, Nikolaj V. and Konstantin L. Oganesjan (1970): Novye urartskie nadpisi iz Erebuni, Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici 1970/3, 107-112; 108, inscr. no. 3, with photo of a specimen in fig. 1. A and B in situ.
Concordance:
Salvini (2008 and 2018): CTU A 8-23A-D = Melikišvili (1971a): UKN II 391-394 = Arutjunjan (2001): KUKN 203-206
A 8-24
Description:
Stone block with building inscription (construction of a temple for the god Haldi). It is still to be found in situ in Arin-berd/Erebuni.
Edition:
Access the edition [/ecut/Q007025/] of A 8-24.
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Dimensions:
height: 29 cm; width: 65 cm; height of lines: 3 cm
Bibliography:
Arutjunjan, Nikolaj V. and Konstantin L. Oganesjan (1970): Novye urartskie nadpisi iz Erebuni, Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici 1970/3, 109, with historical excursus in footnote 1: K. Oganesjan, Krepost' Erebuni (782), 41 fig. 27.
Salvini, Mirjo (1971): Neues urartäisches Inschriftenmaterial aus sowjetischen Veröffentlichungen, Zeitschrift für Assyrologie 61, 1971, 242-254.
Concordance:
Salvini (2008 and 2018): CTU A 8-24 = Melikišvili (1971a): UKN II 395 = Arutjunjan (2001): KUKN 202
A 8-25
Description:
Fragment of a column base with a building inscription (construction of the respective building). A hole in the middle of the column indicates that it was reused. Provenience: Gazandži/Kazancı, now kept in the Armenian History Museum (Erevan; no. 854).
Edition:
Access the edition [/ecut/Q007026/] of A 8-25.
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Dimensions:
height: 62 cm; drum height: 24 cm; void space above the inscription: 3 cm; height of lines: 3.5 cm; hole: diameter: 33 cm; depth: 24 cm
Concordance:
Salvini (2008 and 2018): CTU A 8-25 = Nikol'skij IV = Lehmann-Haupt (1928-1935): ClCH 122 (Project) = Melikišvili (1960): UKN 140 = König (1955-1957): HchI 92 = Arutjunjan (2001): KUKN 189
A 8-26
Description:
Fragment of a column base with building inscription (construction of the respective building). Provenience: Šahriar/Nalbandyan (near Sardarapad), now kept in the Armenian History Museum (Erevan; no. 852).
Edition:
Access the edition [/ecut/Q007027/] of A 8-26.
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Dimensions:
height: 65 cm; width (max. at the base): 105 cm; drum height: 26 cm; drum diameter: 77 cm; void space above the inscription: 3 cm; height of the inscription: 4 cm
Concordance:
Salvini (2008 and 2018): CTU A 8-26 = Lehmann-Haupt (1928-1935): ClCH 123 = Melikišvili (1960): UKN 141 = König (1955-1957): HchI 93 = Arutjunjan (2001): KUKN 190
A 8-27
Description:
Stone block with an inscription reporting the filling of a silo. Provenience: Van. It is lost.
Edition:
Access the edition [/ecut/Q007028/] of A 8-27.
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Concordance:
Salvini (2008 and 2018): CTU A 8-27 = Lehmann-Haupt (1928-1935): ClCH 114 (Tab. XLII, cast [Wan, Engusner]) (Project) = Melikišvili (1960): UKN 135 = König (1955-1957): HchI 95 = Arutjunjan (2001): KUKN 181
A 8-28
Description:
Four stone blocks with duplicate inscriptions reporting the filling of a silo (ʾari). Provenience: Arin-berd/Erebuni.
Exemplar A: The inscription is on dark basalt stone, now kept in the State History Museum/Gosudarstvennyj Istoričeski Muzej (Moscow; no. GIM 47733 B 962/14a).
Exemplar B is kept in the City Museum of Erevan (Erevan), exemplar C is kept in the Museum of Erebuni (Erevan) and exemplars C and E are both kept in the Armenian History Museum (Erevan).
Edition:
Access the edition [/ecut/Q007029/] of A 8-28.
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Dimensions:
duplicate A: height: 20.5 cm; width: 43 cm; depth (max.): 31 cm; height of the inscription: 14.5 cm
duplicate B: height: 22 cm; width (max.): 50.5 cm; depth: 41 cm; height of the inscription: 13.8 cm; width of the inscription: 46 cm; height of lines: 3.5 cm
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duplicate C: height: 20.5 cm; width: 52.5 cm; height of the inscription: 15 cm; width of the inscription: 47 cm; height of lines: 3.5 cm
duplicate D: height (max.): 27 cm; width: 57 cm; depth: 22 cm; height of the inscription: 13 cm; width of the inscription: 47.5 cm; height of lines: 3.3-3.5 cm
Bibliography:
Nikol'skij, Mikhail V. (1896): Klinoobraznaja nadpis' iz Ganli-tapa okolo Erivani, Trudy Vostočnoj Komissii, II/1, 1896, 24-27 (with photo).
Arutjunjan, Nikolaj V. and Konstantin L. Oganesjan (1970): Novye urartskie nadpisi iz Erebuni, Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici 1970/3, 107-112; 107, photo in fig. 2.
Concordance:
Salvini (2008 and 2018): CTU A 8-28A = Nikol'skij XXII = Lehmann-Haupt (1928-1935): ClCH 128 (Projekt) = Melikišvili (1960): UKN 139 = König (1955-1957): HchI 96 = Arutjunjan (2001): KUKN 208
Salvini (2008 and 2018): CTU A 8-28B = Melikišvili (1971a): UKN II 398 = Arutjunjan (2001): KUKN 209
Salvini (2008 and 2018): CTU A 8-28C = Melikišvili (1971a): UKN II 399 = Arutjunjan (2001): KUKN 210
Salvini (2008 and 2018): CTU A 8-28D = Melikišvili (1971a): UKN II 401 = Arutjunjan (2001): KUKN 207
Salvini (2008 and 2018): CTU A 8-28E = Melikišvili (1971a): UKN II 400 = Arutjunjan (2001): KUKN 211
A 8-29
Description:
Red ashlar with an inscription reporting the filling of a silo [ʾari]). Provenience: Aznavurtepe (near Patnos), now kept in the Erzurum Museum (no. 23-79).
Edition:
Access the edition [/ecut/Q007030/] of A 8-29.
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Dimensions:
height: 23 cm; width:53 cm; depth: 14 cm; height of the inscription: 21 cm; height of lines: 3.5-4 cm
Bibliography:
Balkan, Kemal (1960): Ein urartäischer Tempel auf Anzavurtepe bei Patnos und hier entdeckte Inschriften, Anatolia V, 1960, 99-131, (Tab. XXXI-XXXIV), esp. 123-131 and copy on 130 (no. 4).
Concordance:
Salvini (2008 and 2018): CTU A 8-29 = Melikišvili (1971a): UKN II 402 = Arutjunjan (2001): KUKN 182
A 8-30
Description:
Stone slab with inscription reporting the filling of a silo (ʾari). Provenience: Davti-blur/Argištiḫinili, now kept in the Armenian History Museum (Erevan).
Edition:
Access the edition [/ecut/Q007031/] of A 8-30.
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Bibliography:
Torosjan, Rafik B. and Simon G. Amajakjan (1984): Raskopki Argištechinele v 1983 g. i novaja urartskaja nadpis', Istoriko-Filologičeskij Žurnal 1984/4, 160-169, esp. 167.
Concordance:
Salvini (2008 and 2018): CTU A 8-30 = Arutjunjan (2001): KUKN 192
A 8-31
Description:
Basalt stone slab with inscription reporting the filling of a silo (ʾari). Provenience: unknown, now kept in the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations (Ankara; no. 24-3-79).
Edition:
Access the edition [/ecut/Q007032/] of A 8-31.
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Dimensions:
height: 31 cm; width: 53 cm; depth: 16 cm
Concordance:
Salvini (2008 and 2018): CTU A 8-31
A 8-32
Description:
Stone slab with inscription reporting the filling of a silo (ʾari). Provenience: unknown, now now kept in the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations (Ankara).
Edition:
Access the edition [/ecut/Q007033/] of A 8-32.
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Dimensions:
width: 80-100 cm; height: 40-50 cm
Bibliography:
Kleiss, Wolfram and Harald Hauptmann (1976): Topographische Karte von Urartu, (Archaeologische Mitteilungen aus Iran 3), Berlin 1976, map no. 175.
Concordance:
Salvini (2008 and 2018): CTU A 8-32
A 8-33
Description:
Stone block with an unfinished inscription reporting the filling of a silo (ʾari). Provenience: Pirabat, now kept in the Museum of Erzurum (no. 72-98).
Edition:
Access the edition [/ecut/Q007034/] of A 8-33.
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Dimensions:
height: 35 cm; width: 58 cm; depth: 16 cm; height of inscription: 27 cm; width of the inscription: 47.5 cm; height of lines: 4 cm
Bibliography:
Payne, Margaret R. (1996): Urartian Inscriptions in Erzurum Museum, Anadolu Araştırmaları XIV, 1996, 416 (Pirabat II.)
Concordance:
Salvini (2008 and 2018): CTU A 8-33
A 8-34
Description:
Stone fragment (probably of a stone slab) with inscription reporting the filling of a silo (ʾari). Provenience: Pirabat, now kept in the Erzurum Museum.
Edition:
Access the edition [/ecut/Q007035/] of A 8-34.
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Bibliography:
Payne, Margaret R. (1996): Urartian Inscriptions in Erzurum Museum, Anadolu Araştırmaları XIV, 1996, 417, fig. 2 (Pirabat III).
Concordance:
Salvini (2008 and 2018): CTU A 8-34
A 8-35
Description:
Stone fragment (probably of a stone slab) with inscription reporting the filling of a silo (ʾari). Provenience: Pirabat, now kept in the Museum of Erzurum.
Edition:
Access the edition [/ecut/Q007036/] of A 8-35.
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Bibliography:
Payne, Margaret R. (1996): Urartian Inscriptions in Erzurum Museum, Anadolu Araştırmaları XIV, 1996, 417, fig. 2, (Pirabat III). From the remains of the first line one can see that it concerns the construction of a silo.
Concordance:
Salvini (2008 and 2018): CTU A 8-35
A 8-36
Description:
Stone fragment with inscription reporting the filling of a silo (ʾari). Provenience: Pirabat, now kept in the Museum of Erzurum.
Edition:
Access the edition [/ecut/Q007037/] of A 8-36.
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Bibliography:
Payne, Margaret R. (1996): Urartian Inscriptions in Erzurum Museum, Anadolu Araştırmaları XIV, 1996, 419 ff. fig. 5 (Pirabat VII).
Concordance:
Salvini (2008 and 2018): CTU A 8-36
A 8-37
Description:
Fragment of a stone slab with inscription reporting the filling of a silo. Provenience: Pirabat, now kept in the Museum of Erzurum.
Edition:
Access the edition [/ecut/Q007038/] of A 8-37.
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Bibliography:
Payne, Margaret R. (1996): Urartian Inscriptions in Erzurum Museum, Anadolu Araştırmaları XIV, 1996, 419, fig. 4 (Pirabat VI).
Concordance:
Salvini (2008 and 2018): CTU A 8-39
A 8-38
Description:
Fragment of a column base; secondary cross, Armenian inscriptions and graffiti on the upper face. Provenience: Guganis (area of Hayots Dzor), now kept in the Van Musuem.
Edition:
Access the edition [/ecut/Q007039/] of A 8-38.
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Dimensions:
diameter: 81 cm; height: 40 cm; height of lines: 3.1 cm; void space above the inscription: 3.1 cm
Bibliography:
Dinçol, Ali M., Belkis Dinçol and Oktay Belli (1983): Bir bilgi yanlıgının düzeltilmesi hakkında / Berichtigung einer Fehlinformation, Anadolu Araştırmaları 9, 1983, 387-397 + tab. I-III (see above 395f. with tab. I and III/1)
Concordance:
Salvini (2008 and 2018): CTU A 8-38 = König (1955-1957): HchI 138 (with wrong reading of the sign preceding MAN as HI and consequently wrong attribution to Minua, son of Išpuini) = Melikišvili (1960): UKN 154 (without transcription, cited as Гюканц) = Arutjunjan (2001): KUKN 185
A 8-39
Description:
Fragment of a column base with building inscription. Provenience: Davti-blur/Argištiḫinili.
Edition:
Access the edition [/ecut/Q007040/] of A 8-39.
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Concordance:
Salvini (2008 and 2018): CTU A 8-39 = Arutjunjan (2001): KUKN 191
Birgit Christiansen, 'Stone and Rock Inscriptions A 8-20 - A 8-39', Electronic Corpus of Urartian Texts (eCUT) Project, The eCUT Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2024 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Urartianrulersandtheirinscriptions/ArgishtiI,sonofMinuaA8andB8/Inscriptions/StoneandRockInscriptionsA8-20-A8-39/]
http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Urartianrulersandtheirinscriptions/ArgishtiI,sonofMinuaA8andB8/Inscriptions/StoneandRockInscriptionsA8-20-A8-39/