Urartian Inscriptions

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Urartian Inscriptions of Minua Canal (Shamran)

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Minua Canal (A 5-12A–D) Four identical copies of a 14-line text by Minua, concerning the water canal (the so-called Shamran or Semiramis Canal) commissioned by ...

Urartian Inscription of Muradiye

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Muradiye (A 5-16) Two fragments of a badly damaged stele, reused as a gravestone, were found in the Armenian church in Muradiye, formerly known as ...

Urartian Inscriptions of Sarmaç

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Sarmaç / Kopanıs (A 5-47) The inscribed stone block was first copied by F. E. Schulz in 1828, built into a wall of the church ...

Urartian Inscription of Metsopay

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Metsopay-Vank (A 5-83) The inscribed stele was seen and copied by W. Belck in 1891 in the now-vanished Armenian monastery of Metsopay-Vank / Astvadzašin, about ...

Urartian Inscription of Keçikıran

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Keçikıran (A 5-84) The stele fragment was found in the house of Kasım İlçiboğa in the village of Keçikıran, about 15 km east of Muradiye, ...

Urartian Inscription of Aliler Kale

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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 ...

Urartian Inscription of Garni

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Garni (A 8-12) The inscription is carved on a freestanding, irregularly shaped stone—apparently the upper part of a reused ancient Vishap stele—found at the ancient ...

Urartian Inscription of Marmashen

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Marmashen (A 8-10) The five-line inscription is engraved on one of the large boulders in the canyon of the Ahurjan (Arpaçay) River near the village ...

Urartian Inscription of Sarıkamış

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Sarıkamış (A 8-6) The lower end of a stele preserves the last 27 lines of an inscription of Argišti I. The fragment was found in ...

Urartian Inscription of Lchashen

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Lchashen / Ordaklu (A 8-11) The rock inscription is located in Ordaklu (now Lchashen) by the northwest corner of Lake Sevan in Armenia. Inscription is ...