Arinçkus (A 8-44)
The lower part of a large stele was found in the village of Arinçkus (now Kavuştuk), 27 km east of Adilcevaz, northwest of Lake Van, and was handed over to the Van Museum in 2013. Only the curse formula on the reverse is preserved; the main text was evidently on the front of the missing upper part. An ornamental cross on the front suggests the stele was reused as a gravestone in later ages. The stele is on display in the Ahlat Museum.
Transliteration (Işık, 2015):
reverse
1 [m]⸢ar⸣-gi-iš-ti-i-še mmì-⸢nu⸣-ú+a-hi-ni-[še]
2 [a]-⸢li⸣-e a-lu-še i-ni ⸢NA4⸣pu-lu-si e-si-⸢ni⸣
3 ⸢su⸣-ú-i-du-li-e a-⸢lu⸣-še še-er-du-li-⸢e⸣
4 ⸢a⸣-lu-še DUB-te pi-tú-li-e [a-lu]-⸢še⸣ a-i-ni-[i]
5 i-ni-e-li du-li-i-e a-⸢lu⸣-[še] ⸢ú⸣-li-⸢e⸣-[še]
6 ti-ú-li-i-e i-e-še za-du-⸢bi⸣ tú-ri-ni-⸢ni⸣
7 ⸢d⸣hal-di-i-še dIM-še dUTU-[ni?] DINGIRMEŠ-[še]
8 [ma]-a-ni ar-mu-zi-i dUTU-ni pi-i-⸢ni⸣
9 [mì]-⸢i⸣ ar-hi ú-ru-⸢li⸣-a-ni mì-i i-na-i-ni
10 [mì]-⸢i⸣ na-a-ra-a a-ú-i-e ú-lu-li-e
Translation:
“(1) Argišti, son of Minua, [sa]ys: (2b) (As for the one) who removes this stele from (its) place, (3b) (as for the one) who hides it, (as for the one) who damages the inscription, (4b) (as for the one) who lets anyone else do these things, (5b) (as for the one) who says ‘I did it’, (6b) let the god Haldi, the Weather-God, the Sun-God, (and all) the gods annihilate him and his offspring under the sun …” (rest untranslatable).
References:
Işık, K. 2015. “A Fragmentary Stela of the Urartian King Argišti I found in Arinçkus, to the Northwest of Van Lake,” ZA 105, 215–219.
Salvini, M. 2008–2018. Corpus dei Testi Urartei, v. 1 p. 268, v. 3 pp. 193–194, v. 5 pp. 238–239.
eCUT – Electronic Corpus of Urartian Texts (https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Q007045).
Image Sources:
Bora Bilgin, 2024