Rock inscription from Mount Zagan
The rock inscription from Mount Zagaln (Razliq) comes from the western part of East Azerbaijan , from the Sabalan northeast of Sarab , above the road from Tabriz to Ardabil . It is located 13 km north of Sarab. The inscription was discovered in the Tabriz granary by Najaf Ali Zendedel, who made a copy and sent it to Dr. Mahiyar Navabi, Dean of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Tabriz .
The 85 cm by 1.10 m inscription consists of 16 lines and is not very elaborate. It comes from the Urartian king Argišti Rusahini . Benedict assumes that it was placed in the course of the same campaign as the rock inscription from Nascht-e ban .
Argišti reports how he led a campaign against Arḫū ( KUR ar-hu-ú-e ) on the orders of d Ḫaldi . He took the lands of Ušuluni and Buqū ( KUR bu-qu-ú-e ) and finally reached the bank of the Muna River (presumably the lower reaches of the Arax ), where he turned back. Then he subjugated the countries of Girdu, Gituḫani and Ṭuʿišdu and conquered the city of Rūtum ( URU ru-u-tum [?] - ni-e ), which he made tributary. He conquered an unnamed fortress ( E.GAL ), which he had expanded and called Argišti-irdu, follower of Argišti, "in order to increase the power of Biainili and to subdue the foreigners."
This is followed by the name formula: "Argišti, through the power of d Ḫaldis, mighty king, king of the four regions of the world, great king , lord of the city of Tušpa ". In the end, those who erase or damage the inscription are cursed: ialdi, Teišeba ( d UTU) and Šemāni are supposed to obliterate it from the face of the earth (“under the sun”).
concordance
| author | Abbreviation | number |
|---|---|---|
| Benedict 1965 | - | Inscription 1 |
| Salvini 2008 | - | A 11-4 |
| Melikisvili | UKN II | 445 |
| Arjutjan 2001 | KUKN | 409 |
literature
- Warren C. Benedict, Two Urartian Inscriptions from Azerbaijan. Journal of Cuneiform Studies 19/2, 1965, 35–40.
- Miroj Salvini , Corpus dei Testi Urartei. Rome 2008,
- B. André-Salvini / Miroj Salvini, The Urartian rock-inscriptions of Razliq and Našteban (East AzeAzerbaijan, Iran). Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici 41, 1999, 17-32.