The stele from Keşiş Gölü is inscribed in Urartian cuneiform and comes from a King Rusa . Belck wanted to assign her to Rusa I , Salvini pleaded for Rūsa Erimenahi , and Rusa II was also under discussion.
The stele is 1.62 m high and 0.76 m wide. The back is unlabeled, but has lines for an inscription, from which Lehmann-Haupt concluded that the missing upper part had been inscribed. Another fragment of this stele was in August 2002 in the village Gövelek , on Göveleksee of Keşiş Gölü km east found north, about 30 of Van.
concordance
author
Abbreviation
number
king
HchI
121
Melikišvili
UKN
268
Artjunjan
KUKN
391, 1-33
Salvini 2008
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A 14-1
literature
CF Lehmann-Haupt, Armenia then and now. Volume II / 1 (Berlin / Leipzig 1926, 46).
Miroj Salvini, Le due stele di Rusa Erimenahi dal Keşiş Göl. Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici 58, 2006, 209-272.
Miroj Salvini, Corpus dei Testi Urartei. Rome 2008, A 141-2
Miroj Salvini, Une stele di Rusa III Erimenahi dalla zona di Van. Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici 44, 2002, 115-143.
Miroj Salvini, A Consequential Text Connection. A Urartean king inscription in the Museum of the Near East is fueling the scientific dispute. Ancient World 2/2008, 35-37.
RB Wartke, Urartu, the empire on the Ararat. Mainz, Zabern 1993, plate 4.
