Aliler (A 5-92)
A fragment of a cylindrical stone, likely a column base, was found at the site known as Aliler Fortress, a rocky hill a couple of kilometers northwest of the village of Karaağaç, about 54 km north of the city of Van. The fragment preserves only the name of Minua in two lines. The stone must originally have had two identical lines of inscription.
Transliteration:
1 [… m]mì-i-[nu-a-…]
2 […] mmì-i-nu-[a-…]
Translation:
“ […] Mi[nua …] […] Minu[a …]”
References:
Belli, O. 2004. “An early Iron Age and Urartian Fortress: Aliler,” SMEA 46, 5–14 (11, 13).
Salvini, M. 2008–2018. Corpus dei Testi Urartei, v. 1 pp. 264–265, v. 3 p. 189, v. 5 p. 181.
eCUT – Electronic Corpus of Urartian Texts (https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Q006990).
Image Sources:
O. Belli, 2008