Gulijan (A 8-9)
The inscription is on a rock face next to the stream Karan-Gu (Mant’ash) below the village of Gulijan/Kulidzhan (now Spandaryan), approximately 21 km southeast of Gyumri in Armenia. It measures 24 cm in height and 72 cm in width, faces south-southeast, and receives direct sunlight only around noon.
Transliteration:
1 dhal-di-ni uš-ta-bi ma-si-ni šú-ri-e
2 ka-ru-ni mqu-u-li-a-i-ni KUR-ni
3 te-qu-ni mar-gi-iš-ti-ka-i
4 ú-lu-uš-ta-bi dhal-di-ni
5 mar-gi-iš-ti-še a-li
6 ha-ú-bi URUdu-ru-ba-ni
7 mqu-u-li-a-i-ni KUR-ni
Translation:
“(1) The god Haldi set off with his weapon, he conquered the territory of the Quliai, he subjected it to Argišti. The god Haldi marched (ahead of the troops). (5) Argišti says: I conquered the city Duruba and the land of the Quliai.”
References:
Salvini, M. 2008–2018. Corpus dei Testi Urartei, v. 1 p. 349, v. 3 pp. 224–225, v. 5 p. 217.
eCUT – Electronic Corpus of Urartian Texts (https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Q007010).
CTU A 8-9= CICh 117 = HchI 87 = UKN 132 = KUKN 178
Image Resources:
Hushardzan, 2024