Inscription from Karataş
The inscription of Karataş north of Erciş is carved into the bare rock. It comes from the Urartian king Sarduri II.
Sarduri, son of Argišti I , reports that he created a wing for d Ḫaldi the mighty. The kings who succeed him, who are rulers after him, should not erase this inscription. "Sarduri says: Whoever erases this inscription, the god Ḫaldi, the god Teišeba , the sun god, all gods shall destroy him."
There is another inscription on the same rock. She reports that Sarduri, after henaldi had given him the rule, after he had succeeded his father as ruler, built a mighty fortress in this city in the same year, which he called the royal city of Sarduris ( md Sarduriei). In the following section he lists his titles:
- Lord of the whole
- Great King
- King of the Universe (LUGAL KUR SÚ)
- King of the land of Biainili
- King of Kings
- Lord of the city of Tušpa
literature
- Н. В. Арутюнян, Корпус уратсқих қлинообразных надписеӣ. Ереван, Гитутюн 2001, p. 273 f.
- King, Handbook of Chaldic Inscriptions 30 (T, P). Graz 1957, p. 110.
- Г. А. Меликишвили, Урартские клинообразные надписи. Москва: Издательство АН СССР, 1960, No. 167.
- Miroj Salvini, Le inscizioni di Sarduri II. A Karataş. Orientalia 62/2, 1993, p. 72 f.
Web links
Transcription and translation into Russian by Melikišvili
Individual evidence
- ↑ Н. В. Арутюнян, Корпус уратсқих қлинообразных надписеӣ. Ереван, Гитутюн 2001, 276