- Kelashin Stele
The Kelashin Stele (also Kelishin Stele) found in
Kelashin ,Iraq , bears an important Urartian-Assyrian bilingual text dating to ca.800 BC , first described byFriedrich Eduard Schulz in 1827. Part of Schulz's notes were lost when he was killed by Kurds, and later expeditions were either prevented by weather conditions or Kurdish brigands, so that a copy (latex squeeze) of the inscription could only be made in 1951 by G. Cameron, and again in 1976 by an Italian party under heavy military protection.The inscription describes the acquisition of the city of
Musasir (Ardini) by the Urartian king Ishpuini.References
Warren C. Benedict, "The Urartian-Assyrian Inscription of Kelishin", Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 81, No. 4 (1961), pp. 359-385.
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