Urartian Inscriptions

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Urartian Inscriptions of Zivistan

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Elmalık / Zivistan (A 2-2A–G) At least seven cylindrical stones, likely column bases, all carved with the same three-line inscription, feature identical content on each ...

Urartian Inscriptions of Kavuncu

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Kavuncu (A 5-53A-B) The fragmentary cylindrical stone (a column base?) with a three-line inscription (A) was found in a house in Van in the late ...

Urartian Inscriptions of Kevenli

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Kevenli (A 5-34) The cylindrical column base with a three-line inscription was seen and copied by F. E. Schulz in 1827–28 in the church courtyard ...

Urartian Inscription of Zivin

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Zivin (A 5-4) The two-piece stele was originally located in the Zivin Fortress, near the village of Zivin (today Süngütaşı) in the Sarıkamış district of ...

Urartian Inscriptions of Körzüt

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Körzüt, Muradiye and Van Kalesi (A 5-2A–F) An inscription of King Minua, celebrating successful campaigns into the lands of Erkuahi and Etiuni and the conquest ...

Urartian Inscriptions of Kalecik

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Kalecik (A 2-1) The two-line inscription, with identical content on each line, is carved on a cylindrical stone (a column base?). It was seen and ...

Urartian Inscription of Taşköprü

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Taşköprü (A 9-5) The rock inscription is located less than a meter above the current ground level in a rocky ravine behind the village of ...

Urartian Inscriptions of Van Kale (Van Fortress)

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Sardursburg (A 1-1A–F) Six identical inscriptions written in the Assyrian language date to the reign of Sarduri I, making them the earliest dated inscriptions of ...