The Struggle between Urartu and Assyria during the Reign of Rusa, Son of Sarduri: According to the Research of C.F. Lehmann-Haupt
Sargsyan, Vahe · 2025
During their 1898–1899 journey through the Armenian Highlands and northern Mesopotamia, C.F. Lehmann-Haupt and the chemist W. Belck explored the presumed region of Musasir, the spiritual centre of Biainili-Urartu, and copied the Topzawa inscription. Lehmann-Haupt treated this bilingual text as a primary source for reconstructing the conflict between Urartu and Assyria under Rusa, son of Sarduri. Sargsyan shows that several of the pioneer Urartologist's reconstructions remain contested: the identity of the king who commissioned the inscription, the chronology of the events, and the causes and route of Sargon II's 714 BCE campaign.
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Sargsyan, Vahe 2025. The Struggle between Urartu and Assyria during the Reign of Rusa, Son of Sarduri: According to the Research of C.F. Lehmann-Haupt. Բանբեր հայագիտության / Banber Hayagitutyan (International Review of Armenian Studies), 2025, No. 2(38), pp. 12–31; DOI 10.54503/1829-4073-2025.2.12-31. https://doi.org/10.54503/1829-4073-2025.2.12-31
What this offers a reader
Urartian history and the history of how we came to know it, told together.
Uses cuneiform epigraphy and the historiography of the discipline; Institute of History, NAS RA.
The deep antiquity of the Armenian Highland, read from the stones.
The war between Urartu and Assyria, and the scholar who first pieced it together.
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