Ilandagh (A 3-8)
The rock inscription is located on Ilandagh (Ojasar) mountain in the Nakhchivan region of Azerbaijan. It was first documented by geologist V. A. Igumnov in 1988. The inscription is engraved on a flattened rock surface, measuring 100 cm high, 30 cm wide at the top and 50 cm wide at the bottom.
Transliteration:
1 dhal-di-ni-⸢ni⸣ uš-ma-a-⸢ši-ni⸣ miš-pu-ú-i-ni-še md15-duri(BÀD)-⸢hi-ni-še⸣
2 mmì-nu-a-še m⸢iš⸣-pu-ú-[i]-⸢ni⸣-hi-ni-še URUar-ṣi-⸢ni⸣-ni ha-ú-ni ⸢ka⸣-[ru-ni]
3 ⸢URU⸣ar-ṣi-ni-e-i KUR-ni URUa-a-ni-a-ni KUR-ni-e ha-⸢ú⸣-ni za-áš-gu-ni ku?-[x-x]
4 ma-a-⸢nu? te⸣-ru-ni dhal-di-e-i pu-lu-si KURpu-lu-⸢ú-a?-di?-ni-e?⸣ te-ru-ni ⸢ar⸣-[di-še? GU4]
5 dhal-di-e ur-pu-li-ni GU4.ÁB dhal-di-⸢i?⸣(or: MUNUS) si-la-i-e KUR⸢pu⸣-[lu-a-di-e-i?]
Translation:
“(1) Through the protection of the god Haldi, Išpuini, son of Sarduri, (2) (and) Minua, son of Išpuini, conquered the city Arṣini. They (lit. he) defeated the land of the city Arṣini, they (lit. he) conquered the land of the city Aniani and they (lit. he) destroyed it. (4) It was(?) [ … ] He set up a stele for the god Haldi. In the land of Puluadi he established a rit[ual:] He (the ritual practitioner) may sacrifice [an ox] to the god Haldi (and) one cow to the wife of the god Haldi of the land P[uluadi?].”
References:
Hmayakyan, S. G., V. A. Igumnov & H. H. Karagyozyan. 1996. “An Urartian Cuneiform Inscription from Ojasar-Ilandagh, Nakhichevan,” SMEA 38, 139–151.
Salvini, M. 1998. “Eine urartäische Felsinschrift in der Region Nachičevan,” ZA 88, 94–99 with Plts. I–IV.
Salvini, M. 2008–2018. Corpus dei Testi Urartei, v. 1 p. 137, v. 3 pp. 82–83, v. 5 p. 67.
eCUT – Electronic Corpus of Urartian Texts (https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Q006893).
CTU A 3-8 = KUKN 39a
Image Sources:
M. Salvini, 2008