Taşköprü (A 9-5)
The rock inscription is located less than a meter above the current ground level in a rocky ravine behind the village of Taşköprü, which lies approximately 500 meters west of the southern tip of Lake Çıldır. The eight-line inscription is carved on a flattened surface 26.5 cm high and 82.5 cm wide.
Transliteration:
1 dhal-di-ni-ni al-su-i-ši-ni
2 mdsar5-du-ú-ri-i-še
3 mar-giš-ti-hi-ni-še a-li-e
4 i-ú KURú-hi-me-a-li₁₂ ha-u-bi
5 bi-du-ia-še i-ku-ka-ni KASKAL
6 ha-ú-bi URUma-qa-al-tú-u-ni
7 ʾa-še LÚú-e-di-a-ni
8 pa-ru-bi KURbi-a-na-i-di
Translation:
“(1) Through the greatness of the god Haldi, Sarduri, son of Argišti, says: (4) when I conquered the land Uhimeali, during my way back(?) in the same campaign I conquered the city Maqaltuni, I deported men and women to the Bia lands.”
References:
Salvini, M. 2008–2018. Corpus dei Testi Urartei, v. 1 p. 433, v. 3 p. 269, v. 5 p. 261.
Salvini, M. 2012. “Das Corpus der Urartäischen Inschriften,” in Biainili-Urartu, eds. S. Kroll et al., Acta Iranica 51, Leuven, 111–134 (Fig. 08.06)
eCUT – Electronic Corpus of Urartian Texts (https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Q007050).
CTU A 9-5 = CICh 138A = HchI 108 = UKN 159 = KUKN 248
Image Sources:
M. Salvini, 2012
Önder Cırık, 2019