Dağönü / Ererin (A 5-18)
Two basalt fragments form the lower part of a stele. One fragment was found in the late 19th century in Ererin (now Dağönü), about 10 km north of Ayanis on the eastern shore of Lake Van. It measures 85 cm in height, 71 cm in width, and 34 cm in depth. The second piece, of unknown provenance and now missing, is known only from old photos in the Erivan Museum. The surviving lines appear to be a duplicate of the reverse side of A 5-17. The fragment from Ererin is in the inventory of the Van Museum.
Transliteration (Salvini, 2020):
1 [m]mì-i-nu-ú-a-še
2 [m]iš-pu-u-i-ni-hi-ni-še
3 ⸢ti⸣-a-ni DUB-te a-li-e
4 a-me-e-i te-e-ru-bi
5 a-li i-ru-ú-li-⸢e⸣
6 lu-ru-qu-ú-li-e
7 šú-hi ba-at-qi-du-li-ni
8 a-li e-di-i-ni
9 e-di-i-na-a-ni
10 i-si i-ku-ka-a-ni
11 e-di-i-ni ma-nu-li
12 [šú-hi ba-at-qi-di-la-ni]
13 [e-si]-⸢ni⸣ [mmì]-⸢nu-a-i⸣
14 ⸢ti⸣-i-ni te-er-di-la-ni
15 a-lu-še ú-la-a
16 ú-e-si-du-li-i-⸢e⸣
17 a-lu-še ú-i-⸢e⸣
18 šú-hi ba-at-qi-i-a-ni
19 nu-lu-uš-tú-ú-i-ni-ni
20 dhal-di-i-še e-ú-e
21 DINGIRMEŠ-a-⸢še⸣ pa-ri-e
22 e-si-ni ⸢te⸣-e-la-a-ni
Translation (after eCUT):
“(1) Minua, son of Išpuini, says: “the inscription which I established . . . which might . . . and . . . one might re-establish it from anew, which furthermore might(?) be from inside(?) this place, [one shall re-establish it from anew], restore(?) the [pl]ace (of Minua (as its) name. (15) (As for the one) wh[o] . . . (as for the one) who does not re-establish it from anew, let the god Haldi and (all) the gods . . . towards this place.”
References:
Lehmann-Haupt, C. F. 1928–1935. Corpus Inscriptionum Chaldicarum, Berlin-Leipzig (No. 88).
Salvini, M. 1971. “Neues urartäisches Inschriftenmaterial aus sowjetischen Veröffentlichungen,” ZA 61, 242–254 (250–254).
Salvini, M. 2003. “Collazioni e ricostruzioni di testi urartei nella zona di Van. 2. Raccordo fra due stele di Minua,” SMEA 45, 209–223 (218–219).
Salvini, M. 2008–2018. Corpus dei Testi Urartei, v. 1 p. 211, v. 3 p. 135, v. 5 p. 127.
Salvini, M. 2020. “Storia moderna di due stele urartee dell’800 a.C.,” in Σπουδῆς οὐδὲν ἐλλιποῦσα (Gs Biraschi), eds. G. Maddoli, M. Nafissi, & F. Prontera, Perugia, 535–551.
eCUT – Electronic Corpus of Urartian Texts (https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Q006916).
CTU A 5-18 = CICh 88 = HchI 62a = UKN 100, II 382a = KUKN 125, 478
Image Sources:
M. Salvini, 2020