Kalecik (A 2-1)
The two-line inscription, with identical content on each line, is carved on a cylindrical stone (a column base?). It was seen and copied by F. E. Schulz in the church of Aralesk (Lesk), now Kalecik, about 5 km north of Van, but its whereabouts are not known today. The inscription dates to the reign of Išpuini.
Transliteration:
1 miš-pu-ú-i-ni-iš mdsar5-dūri(BÀD)-hi-ni-še bur-ga-na-ni ši-di-ši-tú-ni dhal-di-ni-ni uš-gi-ni miš-pu-ú-i-ni-iš mdsar5-dūri(BÀD)-hi-ni-še É i-ni ši-di-ši-tú-ni i-nu-k[i ba-d]u-si-ni [ú-i] gi-e-i ši-da-⸢ŠE⸣?
2 miš-pu-ú-i-ni-iš mdsar5-dūri(BÀD)-hi-ni-še bur-ga-na-ni ši-di-ši-tú-ni dhal-di-ni-ni uš-gi-ni miš-pu-ú-i-ni-iš mdsar5-dūri(BÀD)-hi-ni-še É i-ni ši-di-ši-tú-ni i-nu-ki ba-du-si-ni be-d[i] ú-i g[i]-e-i ši-da-ŠE?
Translation:
“Išpuini, son of Sarduri, built a pen(?). Through the help(?) of the god Haldi, Išpuini, son of Sarduri, built this building. Nothing had (ever) been built to this perfection (before).”
References:
Salvini, M. 2008–2018. Corpus dei Testi Urartei, v. 1 p. 107, v. 3 p. 56, v. 5 pp. 41–44.
Schulz, F. E. 1840. “Memoires sur le lac de Van et ses environs,” Journal Asiatique IX: 257–323 (No XXXVI).
eCUT – Electronic Corpus of Urartian Texts (https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Q006876).
CTU A 2-1 = CICh 10 = HchI 2 = UKN 17 = KUKN 19
Image Sources:
F. E. Schulz, 1840
Kalecik (A 8-41)
The inscribed stone slab was found reused in a niche in an ancient wall that supported an Armenian chapel on a hill near Aralesk (now Kalecik), about 5 km north of the city of Van. The stone measures 20 cm in height, 30 cm in width, and 5 cm in thickness and is now in the collection of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow. Based on paleographic clues, it has been assigned to the reign of Argišti I.
Transliteration:
1 mar-gi-iš-ti-še
2 a-li-e
3 i-ni ú-hi-ni
4 NA4šú-a-i-e
Translation:
“Argišti says: this uhini building(?) (is made?) of šua stone . . .”
References:
König, F. W. 1955. Handbuch der Chaldischen Inschriften, Graz (No. 94).
Salvini, M. 2008–2018. Corpus dei Testi Urartei, v. 1 p. 367, v. 3 p. 248, v. 5 p. 236.
eCUT – Electronic Corpus of Urartian Texts (https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Q007042).
CTU A 8-28A = CICh 114A = HchI 94 = UKN 153 = KUKN 183
Image Sources:
M. Salvini, 2008