eCUT A 11-08 (CTU A 11-08)


Obverse
o 1o 1	[^d]⸢ḫal-di-ni⸣-[ni]	(o 1) [Through] the protection of the god Ḫaldi, Argišti, son of Rusa, says:
o 22	⸢uš⸣-ma-ši-i-⸢ni⸣
o 33	[^m]ar-gi-iš-ti-še
o 44	^mru-sa-ḫi-ni-še
o 55	a-li i-e-še i-ni-li	(o 5b) I installed this bridge(?). Over the river Arṣiani I made a crossover(?) through the Bia lands;
o 66	qa-bur-za-ni-e-li
o 77	te-ru-ú-li
o 88	ÍD.ar-ṣi-ia-ni-e-⸢di⸣
o 99	za-du-ú-⸢bi⸣
o 1010	ú-ši-ip-te-⸢e⸣
o 1111	KUR.bi-a-i-na-ú-⸢e⸣
o 1212	te-ru-bi ti-ni	(o 12) I gave it the name ‘Bridge(?) of Argišti’.
o 1313	^mar-gi-iš-ti-ni-li
o 1414	qa-bur-za-ni-⸢li⸣
o 1515	^dḫal-di-ni-⸢ni⸣	(o 15) Through the greatness of the god Ḫaldi, through the command of the god Ḫaldi (I am) Argišti, son of Rusa,
o 1616	al-su-i-ši-ni
o 1717	^dḫal-di-ni-ni
o 1818	ba-ú-ši-ni
o 1919	^mar-gi-iš-ti-ni
o 2020	^mru-sa-ḫi-e MAN DAN-⸢NU⸣
o 2121	MAN al-su-i-⸢ni⸣	(o 21) strong king, great king, king of the Bia lands, king of kings, lord of Ṭušpa-City.
o 2222	MAN KUR.bi-a-i-na-ú-⸢e⸣
o 2323	MAN MAN.MEŠ-ú-e a-lu-⸢si⸣
o 2424	URU.ṭu-uš-pa-e ⸢URU⸣
Reverse
r 1r 1	[^mar-gi-iš-ti-še]	(r 1) [Argišti], so[n of] R[usa], says:
r 22	[^m]⸢ru⸣-sa-⸢ḫi⸣-[ni-še]	(r 1) [Argišti], so[n of] R[usa], says:
r 33	a-li-e a-lu-[še]	(r 3b) (as for the one) who destroys this inscription, (as for the one) who damages it, (as for the one) who hides it anywhere(?), (as for the one) who makes anyone else do these things, takes (it or says) ‘go, give (it)’,
r 44	i-ni DUB-te tú-li-e
r 55	a-lu-še [pi]-tú-li-e
r 66	a-lu-še a-ú-i-e-i
r 77	še-er-du-li-e
r 88	a-lu-še ú-li-e
r 99	i-ni-li du-li-e
r 1010	⸢ḫa⸣-ú-li ú-li
r 1111	⸢a^?⸣-ri-e tú-ri-ni-ni	(r 11b) may the god Ḫaldi, the Weather-God, the Sun-God, (and all) the gods annihilate him under the sun ...
r 1212	^dḫal-di-še
r 1313	^dIM-še ^dUTU-še
r 1414	DINGIR.MEŠ-še ma-a-ni
r 1515	^dUTU-ni pi-i-ni
r 1616	mì-i ar-ḫi-e
r 1717	ú-ru-li-a-ni
r 1818	i-ni-i-ni mi-ì

Based on Mirjo Salvini, Corpus dei Testi Urartei (CTU), Volume I–V, 2008–2018: Adapted, revised, lemmatized, and translated into English, by Birgit Christiansen (2016-) for the Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), a corpus-building initiative funded by LMU Munich and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (through the establishment of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair for Ancient History of the Near and Middle East) and based at the Historisches Seminar - Abteilung Alte Geschichte of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/ecut/Q007099/.