Topzawa stele
Topzawa stele in the Iraq Erbil Civilization Museum in Arbil / Iraq.
The Stele of Topzawa (also Topzawä, 25 km south-west of Kelashin ) in the mountains southwest of the Lake Urmia is in Urartian and Akkadian drafted Bilingue the Urartu King Rusa I. 735 v. Chr (reign. To about 714 B.C.). It is badly preserved.
The text reports how Urzana of Muṣaṣir appeared before Rusa, perhaps as HF Russell suspects, to seek help against the Assyrians . Rusa attacked the Assyrians and put Urzana back on the throne of his fathers. Sacrifices were made to the gods of Muṣaṣir. At the end of the inscription, whoever destroys it is threatened with the usual punishments of the gods. Most researchers assume that Muṣaṣir was in the vicinity of Topzawa .
literature
- CJ Edmonds: Some Ancient Monuments on the Iraqi-Persian Boundary. In: Iraq 28/2, 1966, plate XLVI.
- Г. А. Меликишвили: Урартские клинообразные надписи. Москва: Издательство АН СССР, 1960, No. 264.
- HF Russell: Shalmaneser's campaign to Urartu in 856 BC and the historical geography of Eastern Anatolia according to the Assyrian sources. In: Anatolian Studies 34, 1984, pp. 171-201.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Russell 1984, 176.