Iga (Kingdom)
Igā ( KUR i-GA, KUR i-ga) is an Iron Age empire in northern Anatolia , known from inscriptions of the Urartian kings Argišti I and Sarduri II . Its capital was Maqaltū, which Diakonov believes to be at Taşköprü near the southwestern shore of Lake Çıldır . According to the Horhor inscription of Argišti (2nd year of reign) it was near Eriaḫi and Kuriani. The Taşköprü inscription of Sarduri II tells of the campaign against the capital Maqaltū and the fortification of the U Landesimeali country.
König and Diakonov assume that Igā is possibly identical to Ijā, which is also known from the Horhor inscription by Argišti I. A change from g to j can be observed more often in Urartian . There is no evidence of the location of Ijā, other than that it was near Erateli.
Ruler
- Kapuru (ni) at the time of Sarduri
literature
- Н. В. Арутюнян, Корпус уратсқих қлинообразных надписеӣ. Ереван, Гитутюн 2001, 503.
- M. Diakonoff, S, M. Kashkai, Répertoire Géographique des textes cuneiformes. 9. Geographical names according to Urartian texts (Wiesbaden 1981), 26
Individual evidence
- ↑ IM Diakonoff , S., M. Kashkai, Répertoire Géographique des textes cuneiformes. 9. Geographical names according to Urartian texts (Wiesbaden 1981), 43
- ↑ Г.А. Меликишвили, Урартские клинообразные надписи. Москва: Издательство АН СССР, 1960, No. 127, Friedrich Wilhelm König : Handbook of Chaldic inscriptions. Archive for Orient Research. Supplement 8. Graz 1955, No. 80
- ↑ Н. В. Арутюнян, Корпус уратсқих қлинообразных надписеӣ. Ереван, Гитутюн 2001, 509
- ↑ Н. В. Арутюнян, Корпус уратсқих қлинообразных надписеӣ. Ереван, Гитутюн 2001, 241 F7