Rock inscription by Erek Daği

The Urartian rock inscription by Erek Daği (Gölardı) is located approx. 15 km east of Van , 6–8 km north of the village of Gölardı / Doni / Toni on Derge Dere, the canal that connects the Keşiş Gölü reservoir with Van, in eastern Turkey, east of the Küçürek Daği . The Keşiş Gölü stele , which is located in Berlin today, is sometimes listed under the Toni site.

It was discovered in August 2004.

The inscription in Urartian cuneiform is about 1.30 m long and 40 cm high and is very poorly preserved. It comes from a King R […], it is not clear whether it is Rusa II or Rusā Erimenaḫi .

literature

Miroj Salvini: Corpus dei Testi Urartei. Rome 2008, A 14-3
Miroj Salvini: Urartu, la scoperta di due iscrizioni ruprestri in Iran e in Turchia. Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici 47, 2005, 241-256.

Individual evidence

↑ CF Lehmann-Haupt, The Chaldic cuneiform inscription from Kaissaran. Huschardzan Festschrift on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Mechitharist Congregation in Vienna. Vienna, 1911, 254
↑ Miroj Salvini, Corpus dei Testi Urartei. Rome 2008, 628
↑ Miroj Salvini, Urartu, la scoperta di due iscrizioni ruprestri in Iran e in Turchia. SMEA 47, 2005, 241-256

[1] CF Lehmann-Haupt, The Chaldic cuneiform inscription from Kaissaran. Huschardzan Festschrift on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Mechitharist Congregation in Vienna. Vienna, 1911, 254

[2] Miroj Salvini, Corpus dei Testi Urartei. Rome 2008, 628

[3] Miroj Salvini, Urartu, la scoperta di due iscrizioni ruprestri in Iran e in Turchia. SMEA 47, 2005, 241-256