Stela of Yazılıtaş
Coordinates: 39 ° 52 ′ 2.1 ″ N , 42 ° 17 ′ 8.3 ″ E
The stele of Yazılıtaş near Eleşkirt (today Eşek Ilyas between Hasankale and Delibaba ) in the Horasan district of the Erzurum province in Turkey . It is cut into the rock of the Tahir Pass between Horasan and Lake Van . The inscription was erected on the orders of the Urartian king Menua (around 810 - 785 BC) to celebrate his victory over the country or the coalition of Diaueḫe . The inscription was already submitted by Friedrich Eduard Schulz .
The following table of contents is based on the translation provided by Artjunian (2001).
Content of the stele
- The God Haldi came out with its GIS Suri (probably a spear). Against the peoples Diaueḫe, the mighty lands. Ḫaldi is powerful, Ḫaldi is armed with power. Menua entrusts himself to the power of Ḫaldi and the god Ḫaldi preceded him.
- Menua says: I conquered the land of the peoples of Diaueḫe, the city of Šašilu, I subdued the royal city in battle. I burned the land and the fortresses too (?). I moved to the mountains of Šeše, the city of Zuaina , the area of the city of Utuḫa.
Menua tells how Utrubši, the king of the people of Diaueḫe, appeared before him, grasped his feet and prostrated himself. “I behaved as a benefactor (?), I overwhelmed him with the conditions about the amount of gifts. He gave gold, silver, he gave gifts. The prisoners he had made, he gave them back in full (?). "
- Menua says: I have removed two kings from there, the lands of the people of Baltuliḫi ( m Baltuliḫi), the lands of the city of Ḫaldiriluḫi ( URU Ḫa-al-di-ri-ul-ḫi). I tore the fortresses (É-GAL) of the fortified lands from there.
The inscription ends with the usual curse formula: Menua says: Whoever destroys this inscription, who dismantles it, who changes something, who says to another: I have done this, the god Haldi should completely destroy him, the god Ḫaldi, the god Teišeba , the god Šiwini , all gods should bring him under the sun ... "
Menua thus took the tribute from Utrubši, freed prisoners (which indicates previous disputes or raids) and annexed the countries of Baltuliḫi and Ḫaldiriluḫi, which had belonged to Diaueḫe, to the Urartian Empire.
interpretation
Sagona wants to attribute the name Ḫaldiriluḫi to the god Ḫaldi.
literature
- Н. В. Арутюнян, Корпус уратсқих қлинообразных надписеӣ. Ереван, Гитутюн 2001.
- HF Russell, Shalmaneser's campaign to Urarṭu in 856 BC and the historical geography of Eastern Anatolia according to the Assyrian sources. Anatolian Studies 34, 1984, 171-201.
- Friedrich Wilhelm König : Handbook of the Chaldic inscriptions. Archive for Orient Research. Supplement 8. Graz 1955, 23 (A, T, P).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ TA Sinclair, Eastern Turkey, an architectural and archaeological survey, Volume II. London, Pindar Press 1989, 234f
- ^ Antonio Sagona / Claudia Sagona, Archeology at the North-East Anatolian frontier, I. A historical geography and a field survey of the Bayburt province Ancient Near Eastern Studies 14, Louvain Peeters 2004, 33
- ↑ Altan Çilingiroğlu / Miroslav Salvini, When was the Castle of Ayanıs built and what is the meaning of the word 'Šuri'? Anatolian Iron Ages 4, Proceedings of the Fourth Anatolian Iron Ages Colloquium Held at Mersin, 19-23 May 1997. Anatolian Studies 49, 1999, 60
- ↑ Payne has: "The weapon of Halid is powerful", Antonio Sagona / Claudia Sagona, Archeology at the North-East Anatolian frontier, I. A historical geography and a field survey of the Bayburt province Ancient Near Eastern Studies 14, Louvain Peeters 2004, 33
- ^ Antonio Sagona / Claudia Sagona, Archeology at the North-East Anatolian frontier, I. A historical geography and a field survey of the Bayburt province Ancient Near Eastern Studies 14, Louvain Peeters 2004, 29