Stela of Thanahat
Coordinates: 39 ° 26 '5 " N , 45 ° 55' 35" E
The Urarṭean stele from Thanahat (Armenia), inscribed on both sides, is now in the Museum of Yerevan . The hillside at the church of Thanahat , a mountain village, about 150 kilometers (as the crow flies) southeast of Yerevan and about 17 km southwest of Sissian is given as the location . The stele is dated from the reign of Argišti Rusaḫi .
The stele is 1.18 m high and 0.53 m wide. The stone was reworked into a Hačkar , the inscription was partially destroyed.
She tells of a campaign against Etiuḫi . Fortresses were destroyed and cities burned. The king of Etiuḫi ( KUR e-ti-ú-ḫi) paid tribute. Furthermore, Ṣuluqu ( KUR ṣu-lu-qu-ú) was subjugated before the city of Irdua ( URU ir-du-a). Argišti brought an undisclosed number of prisoners, men and women, back to Urartu. He also deported women from the city of Amuša ( URU a-mu-šá), which has not yet been localized.
The unusually missing figures suggest a not particularly successful raid to the north, and there were probably no permanent conquests. This stele is the most northerly from Argišti's reign to date.
concordance
| author | Abbreviation | number |
|---|---|---|
| Artjunjan | KUKN | - |
| Melikisvili | - | UKN 411 |
| Salvini 2008 | - | A 11-3 |
literature
- HV Harjutjan, La nouvelle inscription ouratéenne découverte en Arménie soviétique. In: Horst Klengel (ed.), Society and Culture of the Ancient Near East, writings on the history and culture of the ancient Orient 15. Berlin 1982, 89–93.
- Miroj Salvini, Corpus dei Testi Urartei. Rome 2008, 540-542.
- Miroslav Salvini: The expansion of the Urartu empire under Argišti II. (713- approx. 685 BC) In: Caucasian and Near Eastern Studies . XIII Tbilisi 2009, 209–227 ( full text (PDF; 4.4 MB) as digital version) with 5 images of the stele