Javankaleh (A 8-13)
The rock inscription is located near the eastern shore of Lake Urmia, approximately 8 km east of the town of Ajabsir and 1.5 km west of the village of Javankaleh. It is engraved on a rocky outcrop beneath the summit of a volcanic lava hill at an altitude of 1,412 m above sea level. The southeast-facing inscription covers an area 37 cm high and 74 cm wide. It is set within a niche, the upper edge of which is largely destroyed. The surface is badly damaged, with the right halves of the first seven lines lost.
Transliteration:
1 dhal-di-ni uš-ta-bi ⸢ma⸣-[si-ni šú-ri-e]
2 ka-ru-ni KURma-na-ni ⸢KUR⸣-[ni-e?]
3 ka-ru-ni mʾa-ar-[si-ta-ni KUR-ni]
4 te-qu-ni mar-gi-iš-⸢ti⸣-[ka-a-i]
5 mar-gi-iš-[ti-še a-li ha-ú-bi?]
6 URUši-me-ni-ha-di-⸢ir⸣-[ni URU MAN-nu-si]
7 már-giš-ti-ni MAN DAN-[NU a-lu-si URUṭu-uš]-⸢pa URU⸣
8 mar-giš-ti-še a-li [a]-⸢lu⸣-še ⸢i⸣-ni IM
9 tú-li-e tú-ri-ni-ni dhal-di-še
10 dUTU-ni pi-ni mì-i ar-hi u-ru-li-a-ni
Translation:
“(1) The god Haldi set off [with his] weap[on]. (2) He defeated the terr[itory?] of the land Mana, he defeated [the territory of th]e ʹAr[sita], he subjected it [to] Argišti. (5) Argiš[ti says: I conquered (?)] the city Šimerhadi[rni, royal city(?)]. (7) (I am) Argišti, stro[ng] king, [lord of Ṭušp]a-Ci[ty]. (8) Argišti says: [(as for the one) who] destroys this inscription (lit. ‘tablet’), may the god Haldi annihilate him under the sun (or: the Sun-God) . . .” (rest of the curse formula untranslatable).
References:
Salvini, M. 2005. “Urartu. La scoperta di due iscrizioni rupestri in Iran e in Turchia,” SMEA 47, 241–256 (241–248).
Salvini, M. 2008–2018. Corpus dei Testi Urartei, v. 1 pp. 351–352, v. 3 pp. 228–229, v. 5 pp. 220–221.
eCUT – Electronic Corpus of Urartian Texts (https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Q007014).
Image Sources:
M. Salvini, 2005, 2018