Mahmudabad (A 10-6) The dark grey limestone slab was discovered in 1975 on a hill adjacent to the village of Mahmudabad, located 28 km south of the city of Urmia, Iran. The slab measures 62 cm in height, 90.5 cm in width, and 22 cm in thickness and is kept in the Urmia Museum. The … Read more
Kaleköy (A 12-6) The rock inscription is located at the entrance to a rock-cut room above the village of Kaleköy, approximately 15 km northeast of the town of Mazgirt. The inscription is carved on two right-angled walls in the antechamber of a rock tomb, to the left of the entrance. It is in very poor … Read more
Karataş (A 9-10) This is the western of two rock inscriptions separated by roughly a hundred meters, located in the district known as Karataş, about 2 km east of the city center of Erciş on the northern shore of Lake Van. It was seen and copied by F. E. Schulz in 1827. It is carved … Read more
Keşiş Göl and Gövelek (A 14-1) The tall stele was found in multiple pieces at different locations and times. The lower section was found in 1891 by W. Belck halfway up a ravine slope near the western shore of Keşiş Göl/Lake Keşiş (today Turna Göl), on the eastern side of Mt. Erek, about 30 km … Read more
Mergeh Karvan (A 10-4) The four-sided stele fragment with a Urartian-Assyrian bilingual inscription was discovered in 1976 among the ruins of the medieval village of Mergeh Karvan, located about 7 km east of the Kelishin Pass on the Iraq-Iran border. It was subsequently transported to the Museum of Ancient Iran in Tehran. The stele is … Read more
Kelishin (A 3-11) The Kelishin stele once stood in its original stone base at the Kelishin Pass in the northern Zagros Range, on the road between Ushnaviyeh (Ushnu) and Rowanduz, which marks the border between Iran and Iraq. “Kel-i-shin,” meaning “blue pillar,” refers to the bluish diorite stone. The stele has a height of 175 … Read more
Adilcevaz (A 12-4) Four inscribed blocks were found reused at various locations in Adilcevaz, on the northern shore of Lake Van. Two of these, a large one (C) and a small one (D), were seen by W. Belck in 1898 reused in the walls of the medieval fortress at Adilcevaz. These blocks were moved to … Read more
Joushinqaleh (A 11A-1) The inscription in the possession of an antiquities dealer was reportedly found at Joushinqaleh, a fortress on a steep and massive rock, located 3 km southeast of the village of Joushin, in the Varzaqan district of northwestern Iran, and positioned strategically on a pass between the Ahar Valley and the basin of … Read more
Armavir (A 8-14) An inscription on two non-adjacent stones marks the beginning and end of a much longer text. It was found in the ruins of Armavir and originated from an unknown building. The two stones measure (H x W x D) 58 x 86 x 48 cm and 63 x 88 x 70 cm. … Read more
Avnik (A 9-39) The fragmentary basalt stele was discovered in 1965, reused in the outer wall of a mosque in the village of Avnik (now Güzelhisar), about 60 km east of Erzurum. The six lines on the stele are the closing section of a text. In the blank space below the inscription, a cross in … Read more
