Some Philological Notes on the Inscription of Meher Kapısı

Abstract

The present contribution aims at providing the most complete possible translation and commentary of several debated passages of the Urartian inscription of Meher Kapısı (CTU A 3–1), based both on new readings and interpretations proposed by scholars in recent years, and on a comparative analysis which made use of the Neo-Assyrian and the Hurrian languages as parallels for the Urartian one. While this is not intended as a definitive version of the text, which is surely further debatable and subjected to other interpretations, the translation and commentary offered here aim at bringing together some of the discussions around this inscription conducted in the last years, offering some further insights from a philological perspective.