Bingöl Dağ (A 9-36)
The stele was seen and copied in 1898 by Dr. F. Oswald and H. F. B. Lynch somewhere below the western summit of Bingöl Dağ, northwest of Varto. It was already lying on the ground, and only a few lines were readable. A cross with a circle at its upper end indicates the stele was reused in later ages. If the reading is correct, the word pulusi (stele) may indicate that the inscription mentioned the erection of the stele, possibly in association with a military campaign. The stele has not been seen since.
Transliteration:
1 md⸢sar5-du-ri⸣-[e?]-še
2 m⸢ar⸣-[giš]-⸢ti⸣-[hi-ni]-še
3 […]
4 pu-[lu-si] ⸢ku-gu-ni⸣-e
5 […]
6 […]
7 […]
8 pa-ri KURa-lu-ši-[…]-a
Translation:
“Sard[ur]i, son of A[rgišt]i, [… er]ected (this) ste[le …] to the land Aluši-X[…].”
References:
König, F. W. 1955. Handbuch der Chaldischen Inschriften, Graz (No. 107).
Lynch, H. F. B. 1901. Armenia: Travels and Studies, vol. II (pp. 73, 373).
Salvini, M. 2008–2018. Corpus dei Testi Urartei, v. 1 pp. 450–451, v. 5 p. 279.
eCUT – Electronic Corpus of Urartian Texts (https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Q007081).
CTU A 9-36 = CICh 138 = HchI 107 = UKN 157 = KUKN 243