Menua

A canal made under Menua with an inscription.

Menua (also Menuas or Minua ) was an Urarṭean king who lived from about 810 to 785 BC. Ruled. He was the younger son of his predecessor Išpuini and was his co-regent for ten years. According to the Kel-i-Shin inscription, as crown prince he had made a pilgrimage to Muṣaṣir with his father and made rich offerings to the god Ḫaldi . He was married to Tariria. The queen's name is evidenced by an inscription on the Samiran arki, which marks the Tariria vineyard. His successor was his son Argišti I , who successfully continued the expansion policy. A son Inušpua is also documented by inscriptions.

Campaigns

Menua led campaigns against the Mannaeans and defeated them on Lake Urmia , he reached the Aras and had a palace built in Mešta . This is reported by a Urarṭean inscription from Taštepe near Solduz . Menua conquered Malatya and the Ušnu plain. According to inscriptions from the stele of Yazılıtaş and Süngütaşı (Zivin) he went to the field against Diauehe and Erekua, Diauehe was made tribute but not affiliated to the empire. He claims to have crossed the Euphrates in the west .

buildings

Menua founded the Menuachinili residence on Mount Ararat , while Tušpa (now Van) remained the capital of the Urarean Empire. Menua is also credited with building the fortress of Qalatgah . Inscriptions from Taşburun and Başbulak tell of buildings that the king had built here.

Menua had the agricultural area in Urarṭu expanded and new irrigation channels built, as evidenced by inscriptions (e.g. rock inscriptions from Adaköy , Bakımlı , Katembastı , Edremit and Hotanlı ). The Armenian historian Moses von Choren later assigned the canals to the mythical Queen Semiramis . Menua gave these channels the title Menua Canal ( Menua pili ). The Semiramis Canal is marked with a total of 13 inscriptions. He crossed the Hoşap Su on an aqueduct .

The first susi and the oldest known stele shrine in Karahan were built under Menua .

title

Menua took on the title "King of Kings" (LUGAL e-ri-la-a-ú-e).

Steles / inscriptions

• Adakoy rock inscription
• Ain-e rum
• Alazli / Trimerd, 18 km east of Muş
• Bağin, (today: Dedebağ ), in earlier centuries "Baghin", "Bağhin", "Baghnadoon", 29 km northwest of Palu
• Bakımlı / Ischhaniskom south of the city of Van
• Dzoravank, not far from Berkri
• Hotanlı , canal
• Katembastı / Katepanz at Artameda
• Karahan (mouth of the Bendimahi in Lake Van )
• Kalataş , 15 km east of Uschni and 22 km northwest of Hagadez, Lake Urmia
• Karatabuk (Gjusak) in the northwest of Lake Van , Fragment
• Muradiye (Berkri), northwest of Lake Van , fragment
• Must
• Palu (Balu) on the right bank of the Arazani / Murat ,
• Sarmansuyu / Artamed- Edremit in the southwest of Van
• Inscription from Taštepe , 21 km northwest of Miandoab
• Tarr / Yalindjus near Muradiye, in the northeast of Lake Van.
• Van, Surb Poros
• Stele of Yazılıtaş , Eşek Ilyas between Pasinler and Delibaba
• Yukarni Kaimaz / Mschikert-Meschinkert southeast of Van
• Stele from Zivin , Süngütaşı between Erzurum and Kars
• Zolakert / Zelegert / Цолакерт near Taşburnu on the slope of the Ararat

Trivia

Menua had a horse named Arsibi, which may mean eagle (inukani esinini ANSU.KUR.RA Arsibini tini Menua pii aštibi 22 I Ú) "From the source belonging to the Arsibi horse pasture, the menua is given 22 units of measurement by purchase "(King 1957: 84).

Web links

• Photograph of the inscription
• The passage in it that reports from the palace

Individual evidence

1. ↑ M. Salvini, a urartaische rock inscription in the region Nachicevan. Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 88, 1998, pp. 98-99.
2. ↑ Kemalettin Köroğlu, The Northern Border of the Urartian Kingdom. In: Altan Çilingiroğlu / G. Darbyshire (Ed.), Anatolian Iron Ages 5, Proceedings of the 5th Anatolian Iron Ages Colloquium Van, 6.-10. August 2001. British Institute of Archeology at Ankara Monograph 3 (Ankara 2005) 101
3. ^ Charles Burney, Urarṭu and Iran: Some problems and answers. In: Altan Çilingiroǧlu / DH French (ed.), Anatolian Iron Ages 3, British Institute of Archeology at Ankara Monograph 3 (Ankara 1994) 32
4. ↑ Г. А. Меликишвили, Урартские клинообразные надписи. Москва: Издательство АН СССР, 1960, No. 30
5. ^ Reinard Bernbeck, Political Structure and Ideology in Urartu. Archaeological communications from Iran and Turan 35/36, 272
6. ↑ Reinhard Bernbeck , Political Structure and Ideology in Urartu. Archaeological communications from Iran and Turan 35/36, 291
7. ↑ ^{a b} Н. В. Арутюнян, Корпус уратсқих қлинообразных надписеӣ. Ереван, Гитутюн 2001, 57
8. ↑ Н. В. Арутюнян, Корпус уратсқих қлинообразных надписеӣ. Ереван, Гитутюн 2001, 59
9. ↑ Н. В. Арутюнян, Корпус уратсқих қлинообразных надписеӣ. Ереван, Гитутюн 2001, 63
10. ↑ ^{a b} Н. В. Арутюнян, Корпус уратсқих қлинообразных надписеӣ. Ереван, Гитутюн 2001, 51
11. ↑ Н. В. Арутюнян, Корпус уратсқих қлинообразных надписеӣ. Ереван, Гитутюн 2001, 60
12. ↑ Н. В. Арутюнян, Корпус уратсқих қлинообразных надписеӣ. Ереван, Гитутюн 2001, 42, 43
13. ↑ Н. В. Арутюнян, Корпус уратсқих қлинообразных надписеӣ. Ереван, Гитутюн 2001, 46
14. ↑ Н. В. Арутюнян, Корпус уратсқих қлинообразных надписеӣ. Ереван, Гитутюн 2001, 49, 50
15. ↑ Н. В. Арутюнян, Корпус уратсқих қлинообразных надписеӣ. Ереван, Гитутюн 2001, 56
16. ↑ Н. В. Арутюнян, Корпус уратсқих қлинообразных надписеӣ. Ереван, Гитутюн 2001, 61
17. ↑ Н. В. Арутюнян, Корпус уратсқих қлинообразных надписеӣ. Ереван, Гитутюн 2001, 45
18. ↑ Н. В. Арутюнян, Корпус уратсқих қлинообразных надписеӣ. Ереван, Гитутюн 2001, 55
19. ↑ Н. В. Арутюнян, Корпус уратсқих қлинообразных надписеӣ. Ереван, Гитутюн 2001, 44
20. ↑ Н. В. Арутюнян, Корпус уратсқих қлинообразных надписеӣ. Ереван, Гитутюн 2001, 53
21. ↑ Н. В. Арутюнян, Корпус уратсқих қлинообразных надписеӣ. Ереван, Гитутюн 2001, 62
22. ↑ Н. В. Арутюнян, Корпус уратсқих қлинообразных надписеӣ. Ереван, Гитутюн 2001, 54
23. ↑ Н. В. Арутюнян, Корпус уратсқих қлинообразных надписеӣ. Ереван, Гитутюн 2001, 47-48
24. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from July 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
25. ^ John AC Greppin and IM Diakonoff , Some effects of the Hurro-Urartian people and their languages ​​upon the earliest Armenians. Journal of the American Oriental Society 111/4, 1991, 725

predecessor	Office	successor
Išpuini	King of Urartu approx. 810–785 BC Chr.	Argišti I.