Samiram arkı

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Inscription of the menua

Samiram arkı , Şamram arkı or Menua Canal ( Menua pili ) is a Urartean irrigation system that was built under King Menua .

The channel is 51 km long, 3.4–4 m wide and 1.5–2 m deep (where it is cut into the rock) and has a flow rate of 6–10 m 3 / s. Approx. 25 km of the canal are cut into the limestone. In other places, retaining walls were built that can be up to 7 m high (Gülo Boğazı and Kadem Bastı).

The Samiram arkı brings the water from springs in Yukan Kaymaz (Mecingir) in the plain of Gürpınar to the capital Tušpa ( Van ). The canal crosses the course of the Hoşap on an aqueduct. The canal currently irrigates 5000 hectares and generates 5 megawatts of electricity. Among other things, it irrigates the terraces of Kadembastı .

15 inscriptions accompany its course. The rock inscription of Maştak, for example, reads: "By the grace of d Ḫaldi Menua, son of Išpuini , created this canal." Similarly, the inscription from Kadembastı: "By the grace of d Ḫaldi, Menua, son of Išpuini, created this canal. His name is Menua Canal."

The assignment to Semiramis goes back to the Armenian chronicler Moses von Choren .

literature

  • Oktay Belli: Urartian dams and artificial lakes in Eastern Anatolia. In: A. Çilingiroğlu, H. French (Ed.): Anatolian Iron Ages Colloquium. Anatolian Iron Ages 3: Anadolu Demir Çaglari 3, Van, 6-12 August 1990: III. Anadolu Demir Çaglari Sempozyumu Bildirileri. London: British Institute of Archeology at Ankara 1994, 9-30.
  • Oktay Belli, Dams, Reservoirs and Irrigation Channels of the Van Plain in the Period of the Urartian Kingdom. Anatolian Studies 49, 1999, 11-26 (Anatolian Iron Ages 4th Proceedings of the Fourth Anatolian Iron Ages Colloquium Held at Mersin, 19-23 May 1997).
  • Charles Burney: Urartian Irrigation Works. Anatolian Studies 22, 1972.
  • Günther Garbrecht: The water supply system at Tuspa (Urartu). World Archeology 11/3 (Water Management), 1980, 306-312.

Web links

  • [1] Inscription from the Menua Canal

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Yasemin Kuşlu, Sahin Üstun, Water Structures in Anatolia from Past to Present. Journal of applied Sciences Research 5/12, 2009, 2110
  2. ^ Reinard Bernbeck, Political Structure and Ideology in Urartu. Archaeological communications from Iran and Turan 35/36, 272
  3. ↑ Melikišvili, UKN No. 56
  4. ↑ Melikišvili, UKN No. 55