Historical place profile
Argištiḫinili Artarapšakai
An Urartian city that is attested as "Argištiḫinili in front of Mount/Land Artarapša" in the so-called "Hagi Stele Inscription" of King Argišti II and on bullae recovered from a trash dump on the northern slope of Ayanis Fortress in modern Turkey's Van province. Given the subject of the stele inscription, Işık 2021 would place it somewhere in the Erciş Plain, i.e., northwest of the modern Turkish city of Erciş.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:801408827
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:801408827
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 39.115108, 43.329673
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An Urartian city that is attested as "Argištiḫinili in front of Mount/Land Artarapša" in the so-called "Hagi Stele Inscription" of King Argišti II and on bullae recovered from a trash dump on the northern slope of Ayanis Fortress in modern Turkey's Van province. Given the subject of the stele inscription, Işık 2021 would place it somewhere in the Erciş Plain, i.e., northwest of the modern Turkish city of Erciş.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Pleiades
Source and reuse
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Research path
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