Toprakkale, Eleşkirt (A 3-7)
The stone block reportedly originated from Toprakkale, about 13 km northeast of Eleşkirt in the Ağrı province, but its whereabouts are unknown today. The four lines of the inscription appear identical to the beginnings of the lines of the text found on A 3-6; it is therefore plausible that this block was the first in a series of stones that contained the complete inscription. The broken lines have been restored based on A 3-6.
Transliteration:
1 ⸢d⸣hal-di-ni uš-⸢ta⸣-be ma-[si-ni-e GIŠšú-ri-e ka-ru-ni mlu-ú-šá-a ka-ru-ni mka-tar-za-a]
2 ⸢d⸣hal-di-ni ku-⸢ru⸣-ni dhal-[di-ni GIŠšú-ri ku-ru-ni-ni uš-ta-bi miš-pu-ú-i-ni-ni mdsar5-du-ri-hi]
3 [m]mì-nu-a-ni miš-pu-u-i-[ni-hi za-áš-gu-tú mlu-ú-šá-a mka-a-tar-za-a ha-a-i-tú KURšú-ri-li]
4 ku-ṭí-tú pa-ri URUa-na-ši-e i-[šá-a-ni bi-di-a-li? …]
Translation:
“(1) The god Haldi set off with his weapon, he defeated the Luša, he defeated the Katarza. (2) Behind(?) the god Haldi, behind(?) the weapon of the god Haldi Išpuini, son of Sarduri, (and) Minua, son of Išpuini set off. They defeated the Luša (and) the Katarza, (and) they conquered the region. (4) They came to the city Anašie, (and) they returned(?) from there? …”
References:
Lehmann-Haupt, C. F. 1928–1935. Corpus Inscriptionum Chaldicarum, Berlin-Leipzig (No. 28, Fig. 9).
Salvini, M. 2008–2018. Corpus dei Testi Urartei, v. 1 pp. 134–135, v. 3 pp. 79–80, v. 5 pp. 66–67.
eCUT – Electronic Corpus of Urartian Texts (https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Q006892).
CTU A 3-7 = CICh 28 = HchI 6b = UKN 23 = KUKN 34
Image Source:
C. F. Lehmann-Haupt, 1928–1935