Marmashen (A 8-10)
The five-line inscription is engraved on one of the large boulders in the canyon of the Ahurjan (Arpaçay) River near the village of Ganlija (now Marmashen), about 8.5 km northwest of Gyumri in Armenia. The southeast-facing inscription covers an area 18.5 cm high and 80 cm wide. The rocks are located near the Armenian Monastery of Marmashen.
Transliteration:
1 dhal-di-ni-ni al-su-u-ši-i-ni
2 mar-gi-iš-ti-še a-li-e
3 ha-ú-bi me-ri-a-hi KUR-ni
4 ha-ú-bi URUir-da-ni-u-ni
5 pa-ri KURiš-qi-gu-lu-ú
Translation:
“(1) Through the greatness of the god Haldi Argišti says: (3) I conquered the territory of the Eriahi, I took the city Irdaniu, up to the land Išqigulu.”
References:
Salvini, M. 2008–2018. Corpus dei Testi Urartei, v. 1 p. 350, v. 3 pp. 225–226, v. 5 pp. 217–218.
Salvini, M. 2011. “Urartu Tarihine Genel Bir Bakış / An Overview of Urartian History,” in Urartu: Doğu’da Değişim / Transformation in the East, eds. K. Köroğlu & E. Konyar, İstanbul, 74-101 (Fig. 8).
eCUT – Electronic Corpus of Urartian Texts (https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Q007011).
CTU A 8-10= CICh 118 = HchI 88 = UKN 133 = KUKN 179
Image Sources:
M. Salvini, 2011