Stone and Rock Inscriptions
A 18-1
A 18-2
A 18-3
A 18-4
A 18-5
A 18-6
A 18-7
A 18-8
A 18-9
A 18-10
A 18-11
A 18-12
A 18-13
A 18-1
Description:
Rock inscription with account of territorial distribution inscribed in a niche at Koçyatağı; barely leggible due to weathering and gunshots.
Edition:
Access the edition [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Q007116/] of A 18-1.
Sources:
Dimensions:
height: 50 cm; width: 30 cm
Bibliography:
Çavuşoğlu, Rafet, Kenan Işık and Mirjo Salvini (2010): New Urartian Inscriptions From the Region of Patnos, East Turkey, Orientalia 79, 2010, 36-54 (tab. I-X).
A 18-2
Description:
Sandstone slab with writing exercise; legible is only the Urartian word for king. Provenience: Çavuştepe, now kept in the Van Museum.
Edition:
Access the edition [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Q007117/] of A 18-2.
Sources:
Dimensions:
height: 37 cm; width (max.): 21 cm; depth: 5 cm; height of lines: 4 cm
Bibliography:
Dinçol, Ali M. (1987): Urartäische Inschriften aus Çavuştepe - Sardurihinili, Anadolu XXI, 1987, 95-103, esp. 102, N° 8.
A 18-3
Description:
Fragment of a stone block with untranslatable inscription. Provenience: Armavir, now kept in the Armenian History Museum (Erevan).
Edition:
Access the edition [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Q007118/] of A 18-3.
Sources:
Concordance:
Salvini (2008 and 2018): CTU A 18-14 = Lehmann-Haupt (1928-1935): ClCH 174A = Melikišvili (1960): UKN 317 = König (1955-1957): HchI Inc. 29 = Arutjunjan (2001): KUKN 517
A 18-4
Description:
Fragment of a stele with annalistic account. Likely it is to be attributed to Minua as A5-102. Provenience: Bitlis, now kept in a storage room of the Van Museum.
Edition:
Access the edition [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Q007119/] of A 18-4.
Sources:
Dimensions:
height (max.): 41 cm; width: 36 cm; depth: 24 cm; height of lines: 3 cm
Bibliography:
Dinçol, Ali M. (1989): Yeni Urartu Yazıtları ve yazıt parçaları, Anadolu Araştırmaları 11, 1989, 139, figs. 4-5.
A 18-5
Description:
Fragment of a stone block with an annalistic inscription. Provenience: Sihke (near Van). The fragment is missing, but a squeeze (made by Vladimir Souček) is available.
Edition:
Access the edition [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Q007120/] of A 18-5.
Sources:
Concordance:
Salvini (2008 and 2018): CTU A 18-5 = Lehmann-Haupt (1928-1935): ClCH 175 (Project) = Melikišvili (1960): UKN 311 a-c = König (1955-1957): HchI 77a (= König (1955-1957): HchI 77b!) = Arutjunjan (2001): KUKN 483
A 18-6
Description:
Stone fragment with account of building projects. Provenience: unknown, now kept in the Van Museum.
Edition:
Access the edition [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Q007121/] of A 18-6.
Sources:
Dimensions:
height (max.): 40 cm; width (max.): 60 cm; depth: 30 cm
Bibliography:
Dinçol, Ali M. (1989): Yeni Urartu Yazıtları ve yazıt parçaları, Anadolu Araştırmaları 11, 1989, 141, figs. 6-7.
A 18-7
Description:
Omitted. The fragment is part of A 12-02 column v. and is now to be found under this text number.
Edition:
Access the edition [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Q007122/] of A 18-7.
Sources:
Dimensions:
height: 26 cm; width: 25 cm; depth: 20 cm; height of the lines: 4.5-4.7 cm
Bibliography:
Salvini, Mirjo (2008): Minima Urartaica, Armenian Journal of Near Eastern Studies III/2, 2008, 143-145.
Concordance:
Salvini (2008 and 2018): CTU A 18-7 = Piliposjan = Arutjunjan (2001): KUKN 598
A 18-8
Description:
Two stone blocks with a fragmentarily preserved and untranslatable inscription. Block A is a grey and compact stone, blocks B and C are black. Provenience: Van Kalesi, now kept in the İstanbul Üniversitesi Arkeoloji Merkezi (Istanbul).
Edition:
Access the edition [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Q007123/] of A 18-8.
Sources:
Dimensions:
block A: height: 9 cm; width: 8 cm; height of lines: 3.8 cm; character height: 2.5 cm
block B: height: 10 cm; width: 10 cm; depth: 9 cm; height of lines: 5 cm; character height: 4 cm
block C: height: 22 cm; width: 19 cm; depth: 23 cm; character height: ca. 5 cm
A 18-9
Description:
Fragment of a stone block with untranslatable inscription. Provenience: Toprakkale.
Edition:
Access the edition [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Q007124/] of A 18-9.
Sources:
Bibliography:
Lehmann-Haupt, Carl Friedrich (1907): Materials on the Older History of Armenia and Mesopotamia (Treatises of the Royal Society of Sciences of Göttingen, Philologisch-Historische Klasse, Neue Folge Vol. IX, Nr. 3), Berlin 1907, 70, 5 fig. 46b.
Concordance:
Salvini (2008 and 2018): CTU A 18-9 = Melikišvili (1960): UKN 307 = König (1955-1957): HchI Inc. 7b = Arutjunjan (2001): KUKN 451
A 18-10
Description:
Fragment of a stone block with untranslatable inscription. Provenience: Toprakkale.
Edition:
Access the edition [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Q007125/] of A 18-10.
Sources:
Dimensions:
fragment C: height: 9.5 cm; width: 6.5 cm
Bibliography:
Marr, Nikolaj Jakovlevič (1917): Materialy po chaldskoj epigrafike iz komandirovki I. A. Orbeli v Tureckuju Armeniju, Zapiski Vostočnago Otdelenija XXIV, 1917, 99-123; esp. 118-120 and photos in tab. IV fig. 7.
Concordance:
Salvini (2008 and 2018): CTU A 18-10 = Lehmann-Haupt (1928-1935): ClCH 176A = Melikišvili (1960): UKN 308 = König (1955-1957): HchI Inc. 7d = Arutjunjan (2001): KUKN 452
A 18-11
Description:
Three fragments of stone blocks with an untranslatable inscription. Provenience: Haikaberd (Çavuştepe).
Edition:
Access the edition [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Q007126/] of A 18-11.
Sources:
Dimensions:
fragment A: height: 10 cm; width: 11 cm
fragment B: height: 14 cm; width: 9 cm
fragment C: height: 10 cm; width: 5.5 cm
Bibliography:
Marr, Nikolaj Jakovlevič (1917): Materialy po chaldskoj epigrafike iz komandirovki I. A. Orbeli v Tureckuju Armeniju, Zapiski Vostočnago Otdelenija XXIV, 1917, 99-123; esp. 118-120 and photos in tab. IV fig. 1-3.
Concordance:
Salvini (2008 and 2018): CTU A 18-11a-c = Melikišvili (1960): UKN 310 a-c = König (1955-1957): HchI Inc. 3a-c = Arutjunjan (2001): KUKN 484a-c
A 18-12
Description:
Fragment of a stone block. Provenience: Armavir, now kept in the Armenian History Museum (Erevan).
Edition:
Access the edition [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Q007127/] of A 18-12.
Sources:
Concordance:
Salvini (2008 and 2018): CTU A 18-12 = Nikol'skij XXIII = Melikišvili (1960): UKN 315 = König (1955-1957): HchI Inc. 27 = Arutjunjan (2001): KUKN 516
A 18-13
Description:
Fragment of a stone block with building inscription. Provenience: Armavir, now kept in the Armenian History Museum (Erevan).
Edition:
Access the edition [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Q007128/] of A 18-13.
Sources:
Dimensions:
height: 22 cm; width: 12.5 cm
Concordance:
Salvini (2008 and 2018): CTU A 18-13 = Lehmann-Haupt (1928-1935): ClCH 174 = Melikišvili (1960): UKN 316 = König (1955-1957): HchI Inc. 28 = Arutjunjan (2001): KUKN 515
Description:
Fragment of a decorative marble slab with a doubtful inscription ar-giš-ti.
Edition:
Access the edition [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Q007765/] of A 18-14.
Sources:
Concordance:
Salvini (2008 and 2018): CTU A 18-14 = Lehmann-Haupt (1928-1935): ClCH 176B = Melikišvili (1960): UKN 314? = König (1955-1957): HchI Inc. 10
Description:
Fragment of a stone block with an inscribed ni-sign. Provenience: Toprakkale.
Edition:
Access the edition [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Q007766/] of A 18-15.
Sources:
Bibliography:
Marr, Nikolaj Jakovlevič (1917): Materialy po chaldskoj epigrafike iz komandirovki I. A. Orbeli v Tureckuju Armeniju, Zapiski Vostočnago Otdelenija XXIV, 1917, 118-120.
Concordance:
Salvini (2008 and 2018): CTU A 18-15 = Melikišvili (1960): UKN 309 = König (1955-1957): HchI Inc. 7e = Arutjunjan (2001): KUKN 453
Description:
Stone fragments. Now kept in the storeroom of the Van Museum.
Edition:
Access the edition [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Q007767/] of A 18-16.
Sources:
A 18-16 A, B, C, D, E, F, G
Bibliography:
Salvini, Mirjo (2010): Nuove Iscrizioni Urartee e collazioni: Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici 52, 2010, 284-287.
Concordance:
Salvini (2008 and 2018): CTU A 18-16
Birgit Christiansen, 'Stone and Rock Inscriptions', Electronic Corpus of Urartian Texts (eCUT) Project, The eCUT Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2020 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/urartianrulersandtheirinscriptions/inscriptionswithuncertainattributiona18andb18/stoneandrockinscriptions/]
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