Yoncalı inscription
The Assyrian Yoncalı inscription at Yoncalı (county Bulanık the province of Muş ) at the western end of the plain of Bulanık- Malazgirt was commissioned by the Assyrian ruler Tiglath-pileser I. appropriate. He describes himself here as the conqueror of Nairi from Tumme to Daiaeni , conqueror from Habhi to the Great Sea .
- "ka-sid KUR.KUR na-i-ri-tu iš KUR tu-to-mi a- [di] KUR da-ia-ni ka-sid [ KUR ] hab-a-hi di A.AB.BA GAL -th. "
 
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Russell assumes that the inscription was erected either in Nairi or at the site of the battle against the united kings of Nairi, but points out that Tiglat-pileser's inscriptions are often simply formulated from older models and are not always necessarily close by of the places mentioned in the inscription (cf. Tigris Tunnel ). Charles Burney assumes that the battle took place not far from the inscription, i.e. on the Malazgirt plain . It is unclear whether Yoncalı was in Tumme or Daiaen.
The Georgian Assyriologist Gregor A. Melik'išvili reads the passage transcribed here with hab-hi as quil-hi (Kilchi) and equates this with the land of Qulḫa of the Urartian sources and the Colchis of the Greeks. The “Great Sea” would thus correspond to the Black Sea. However, this is very unlikely because of the distances to be covered by the Assyrian army.
literature
- Grigorij A. Melikišvili: Diauechi. In: Vestnik drevnej istorii. 4, 1950, ISSN 0321-0391 , pp. 26-42.
- Grigorij A. Melikišvili: Nairi-Urartu. Tbilisi 1964, pp. 27-28.
- Hugh F. Russell: Shalmaneser's Campaign to Urartu in 856 BC and the Historical Geography of Eastern Anatolia according to the Assyrian Sources. In: Anatolian Studies. 34, 1984, ISSN 0066-1546 , pp. 171-201.
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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, 186
- ^ CA Burney, A first season of excavations at the Urartian citadel of Kayalıdere . Anatolian Studies 16, 1966, 58