Muradiye (A 5-16)
Two fragments of a badly damaged stele, reused as a gravestone, were found in the Armenian church in Muradiye, formerly known as Berkri. Their whereabouts are unknown today. The fragments belonged to the lower section of a stele that apparently celebrated the construction of a canal.
Transliteration:
1ʹ [x x x x] x
2ʹ [dhal-di]-ni-ni
3ʹ [al]-⸢su⸣-ú-i-ši-ni
4ʹ [mmì]-nu-ú-a-ni
5ʹ [m]⸢iš⸣-pu-u-i-ni-e-[hi]
6ʹ [MAN DAN]-NU MAN al-su-ni
7ʹ [MAN KURbi]-i-a-i-na-e
8ʹ [a-lu]-si URUṭu-uš-pa URU
9ʹ [mmì]-nu-a-še a-li
10ʹ [a]-⸢lu⸣-še i-ni DUB-te
11ʹ [tú]-⸢li⸣-e a-lu-še
12ʹ [pi]-i-tú-li-i-e
13ʹ [a]-⸢lu⸣-še a-i-ni-i
14ʹ [i]-ni-li du-li-e
15ʹ [a]-lu-še ú-li-še
16ʹ ⸢ti⸣-i-ú-li-i-e
17ʹ [i]-e-še i-ni pi-li
18ʹ [a]-⸢gu⸣-bi tú-ri-ni-ni
19ʹ [d]⸢hal⸣-di-še dIM-[še]
20ʹ [d]UTU-ni-še DINGIRMEŠ-⸢še⸣
21ʹ [ma]-a-[ni d]UTU-[ni]
22ʹ [pi-i-ni mì-i]
23ʹ [ar-hi ú]-ru-li-a-⸢ni⸣
24ʹ [mì]-i i-na-a-i-ni
25ʹ [mì]-i na-a-ra-a
26ʹ [a]-ú-i-e ú-lu-⸢li⸣-[e]
Translation:
“(1ʹ) . . . Through the greatness of [the god Hald]i (4ʹ) (I am) [Mi]nua, [son] of Išpuini, (6ʹ) [str]ong [king], great king, [king of the Bi]a lands, (8ʹ) [L]ord of Ṭušpa-City. (9ʹ) [Mi]nua says: “(As for the one) [w]ho [dest]roys this inscription, (11ʹ) (as for the one) who [da]mages it, (as for the one) [w]ho makes anyone else do these things, and says: (17ʹ) ‘I [d]ug this canal’, let the [god H]aldi, the Weather-God, the Sun-God, (and all the) gods (21ʹ) annihilate [h]im [under] the sun …” (rest untranslatable).”
References:
Lehmann-Haupt, C. F. 1928–1935. Corpus Inscriptionum Chaldicarum, Berlin-Leipzig (No. 47, Plt. LIV).
Salvini, M. 2008–2018. Corpus dei Testi Urartei, v. 1 pp. 208–209, v. 3 p. 132, v. 5 p. 125.
eCUT – Electronic Corpus of Urartian Texts (https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Q006914).
CTU A 5-16 = CICh 47 = HchI 32 = UKN 57 = KUKN 74
Image Sources:
C. F. Lehmann-Haupt, 1928–1935