Rusa (son of Erimena)

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Rusa , son of Erimena ( Rusa Erimenaḫi ), conventionally as Rusa III. called, was a Urartian king. He was the son of Erimena . His rule is usually around 605–585 BC. BC.

Domination

It is not certain whether his father Erimena was king himself, the name is otherwise not recorded in the Urartian royal family, which some researchers see as evidence of usurpation. He used what is known as a prince's seal, which does not mention his father's name. It bears the inscription m] E- [r] i.me-n [an] é? Rusa itself, on the other hand, again bears a traditional royal name.

Since the order of the kings after Rusa II is unclear, Rusa, son of Erimena, was not given a number here. However, he is sometimes called Rusa III. guided.

Rusā Erimenaḫi describes himself on the stele of Keşiş Gölü as the servant of Ḫaldi and calls Ḫaldi his master ( EN-si ), who raised him to the throne, who placed the scepter in his hand. Overall, he creates a much more personal reference to Haldi in the text than is shown in other royal inscriptions, and which is reminiscent of Old Testament psalms.

Çilingiroğlu wants to make Rusa Erimenaḫi the successor to Argišti Rusaḫini, usually from Argišti II. Rusa Argištiḫi (usually counted as Rusa II) would then be his successor.

buildings

Rusa created before the mountain Qilbani (presumably Zımzımdağ ), where the earth was without form before, cornfields and Wingert . He let orchards and canals for irrigation create and created the reservoir Keşiş Gölü Rusa Lake, m ru-sa-ai SU [e] , which still exists today to the water supply of Tuspa sure. Through this lake grain fields, orchards and vineyards could be planted, it created abundance. The archaeologically recorded reservoirs of Köşebaşı, Kurubaşı and Sihke also irrigate the land in front of Mount Qilbani. As Çilingiroğlu emphasizes, this description does not fit well into the picture of the general Urartean decline after Rusa II that is usually drawn.

Inscriptions

Rusa is also documented on dedicatory inscriptions from shields from Toprakkale (British Museum No. 22481). An undecorated shield with the repair of the shield shackles from the Clayton excavation is in the British Museum. It bears the following dedication: “For d Haldi, the Lord. Rusa, son of Erimena, has consecrated this shield for his future life. By the power of d Haldis [I am] Rusa, son of Erimena, the great king, ruler of the city of Tušpa ”. Afif Erzen and Emin Bilgiq found during excavations between 1959 and 1961 in Toprakkale a bronze shield with concentric lion and bull friezes, which also bore a votive inscription from Rusa.

literature

  • Altan Çilingiroğlu: Rusa son of Argishti. Rusa II or Rusa III? In: Ancient Near Eastern Studies 45, 2008, ISSN  0065-0382 , pp. 21-29.
  • Ursula Seidl: Rusa son of Erimena, Rusa son of Argisti and Rusahinili / Toprakkale. In: Stephan Kroll u. a. (Ed.): Biainili-Urartu. The proceedings of the symposium held in Munich 12-14 October 2007. Peeters, Leuven 2012, pp. 177-181
  • Stephan Kroll: Rusa Erimena in an archaeological context. In: Stephan Kroll u. a. (Ed.): Biainili-Urartu. The proceedings of the symposium held in Munich 12-14 October 2007. Peeters, Leuven 2012, pp. 183-186
  • Michael Roaf: Could Rusa son of Erimena have been king of Urartu during Sargon's Eighth Campaign? In: Stephan Kroll u. a. (Ed.): Biainili-Urartu. The proceedings of the symposium held in Munich 12-14 October 2007. Peeters, Leuven 2012, pp. 187-216

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ RW Hamilton: The decorated bronze strip from Gushchi. In: Anatolian Studies 15, 1965, p. 48
  2. ↑ z. B. Robert H. Dyson, Jr .: Problems of Protohistoric Iran as Seen from Hasanlu. In: Journal of Near Eastern Studies 24, 1965, p. 210
  3. ↑ However, only the name R [...] has been preserved for assignment to Rusā Erimenaḫ s. Miroj Salvini: Una Stele di Rusa III Erimenabi dalla zona di Van. In: Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici 45, 2002, pp. 115-143
  4. ↑ Çilingiroğlu points out, however, that the conscious lake could also be other reservoirs, such as the Erçek Gölü
  5. ↑ Г. А. Меликишвили, Урартские клинообразные надписи. Москва: Издательство АН СССР, 1960, No. 288
  6. ↑ Miroj Salvini: Corpus dei testi urartei. Rome 2008, No. A 14-5
  7. ↑ Miroj Salvini: Corpus dei testi urartei. Rome 2008, no.A 14-6
  8. ↑ UKN II, 458, Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 61, 1971, pp. 242-254
  9. ↑ Г. А. Меликишвили, Урартские клинообразные надписи. Москва: Издательство АН СССР, 1960, No. 300
  10. ↑ Г. А. Меликишвили, Урартские клинообразные надписи. Москва: Издательство АН СССР, 1960, No. 303
  11. ↑ Miroj Salvini: Una Stele di Rusa III Erimenabi dalla zona di Van. In: Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici 45, 2002, pp. 115-143
  12. ^ Gerhard Rudolf Meyer : On the bronze statuette VA 774 from Toprak-Kale . In: Research and Reports 8, 1967, p. 11
  13. ↑ Guitty Azarpay: Urartian Art and Artifacts. 1968, plates 56-58
  14. ^ RD Barnett: More Addenda from Toprak Kale. In: Anatolian Studies 22, 1972, p. 163, after König
  15. ^ RD Barnett: More Addenda from Toprak Kale. In: Anatolian Studies 22, 1972, p. 163
personal data
SURNAME Rusa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rusa Erimenaḫi; Rusa III.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION urartean king
DATE OF BIRTH before 605 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH around 585 BC Chr.