Arame of Urartu
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| Arame | |
|---|---|
| King of Urartu | |
| Reign | 858–844 BC |
| Predecessor | Kingdom established |
| Successor | Lutipri or Sarduri I |
Arame or Aramu (r. 858–844 BC) was the first known king of Urartu.[1]
Living at the time of King Shalmaneser III of Assyria (r. 859–824 BC), Arame fought against the threat of the Assyrian Empire. His capital at Arzashkun was captured by Shalmaneser.[2] Sagunia, a previous capital, which was also captured by Shalamaneser, seems to have been located in the vicinity of Lake Van[3][4][5] or Lake Urmia.[6][7] Subsequent Urartian rulers probably came from a different dynasty than Arame.[8]
Arame has been suggested as the prototype of both Aram (and, correspondingly the popular given name Aram)[9] and Ara the Beautiful, two of the legendary forefathers of the Armenian people.[10] Khorenatsi's History (1.5) puts them six and seven generations after Hayk.[11]
It has been hypothesized that Aramu was a military leader of Aramean origin.[12] Philologist Armen Petrosyan writes that Aramu may be identified with the legendary Armenian Aram, and proposes that Aramu may have been named after the Armenian or related deity *Aram-.[13] Petrosyan further writes, "Bearing in mind the Armenian etymologies of the names of the first king of Urartu Aramu and one of his royal cities Arṣašku, one may conclude that the first king of Urartu was an Armenian ruler and the Armenians inhabited Arṣašku."[14]
He is not to be confused with another king Aramu (also known as Adramu and Atarsamek) who ruled at the same time in Bit Agusi and also fought Shalemaneser III.
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References
[edit]- ^ Hewsen, Robert H. (1975). "The Primary History of Armenia: An Examination of the Validity of an Immemorially Transmitted Historical Tradition". History in Africa. 2: 93–94. doi:10.2307/3171466. ISSN 0361-5413.
[7] Aram. This is certainly Aramu (mid-ninth century B.C.), the first known ruler of Urartu. This identification is based not only on the similarity of names but also on the historical information on Aram provided by Pseudo-Moses which, emphasizing the conquests of Aram and his wars with Assyria, can only refer to the exploits of Aramu.
- ^ Healy, Mark (2023). The Ancient Assyrians: Empire and Army, 883-612 BC (Electronic ed.). Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 47. ISBN 978-1-4728-4810-9.
- ^ Robert Rollinger. "From Sargon of Agade and the Assyrian Kings to Khusrau I and Beyond". p. 727. 2012. https://www.academia.edu/1817630/Robert_Rollinger_From_Sargon_of_Agade_and_the_Assyrian_Kings_to_Khusrau_I_and_beyond_on_the_persistence_of_Ancient_Near_Eastern_Traditions_In_Giovanni_B_Lanfranchi_Daniele_Morandi_Bonacossi_C_Pappi_Simonetta_Ponchia_Eds_LEGGO_Studies_presented_to_Prof_Frederick_Mario_Fales_on_the_Occasion_of_his_65th_Birthday_Leipziger_Altorientalische_Studien_2_Wiesbaden_Harrassowitz_2012_725_743
- ^ John Boardman, ed. The Cambridge Ancient History (3rd Edition). Cambridge University Press. 1982. p. 334. https://archive.org/stream/iB_Ca/03-01_djvu.txt
- ^ Mack Chahin. The Kingdom of Armenia: New Edition. Routledge. 2001. https://books.google.com/books?id=uXj_AQAAQBAJ&dq=sugunia+urartu&pg=PT60
- ^ Trevor Bryce. The Routledge Handbook of the Peoples and Places of Ancient Western Asia. Taylor & Francis. p. 665. 2009.
- ^ Kamal-Aldin Niknami, Ali Hozhabri, eds. Archaeology of Iran in the Historical Period. p. 41. 2020.
- ^ Petrosyan, Armen (30 April 2019). "On the Ethnic Origin of the Ruling Elite of Urartu". In Avetisyan, Pavel S.; Dan, Roberto; Grekyan, Yervand H. (eds.). Over the Mountains and Far Away: Studies in Near Eastern history and archaeology presented to Mirjo Salvini on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Archaeopress. p. 387. doi:10.2307/j.ctvndv9f0.49. ISBN 978-1-78491-944-3.
[...] (after Aramu, the dynasty of Urartu probably was changed, but the new one could be of the same or close ethnic origin).
- ^ "Արամ" in H. Ačaṙean (1926-35), Hayocʿ Anjnanunneri Baṙaran (Yerevan: Yerevan State University), 2nd ed., 1942-62
- ^ Lang (1970), p. 85.
- ^ Авдиев В. И. «История Древнего Востока», М.: «Высшая школа», 1970, с. 419 420.
- ^ Salvini, Mirjo (1995). Geschichte und Kultur der Urartäer. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft. pp. 26 ff. ISBN 9783534018703. Cited in Petrosyan, Armen (2002). The Indo-European and Ancient Near Eastern Sources of the Armenian Epic. Washington, D.C: Institute for the Study of Man. p. 72, note 258. ISBN 9780941694810.
- ^ Petrosyan 2002, pp. 71–72, note 258: "Accordingly, Aramu the Urartian, king of Arṣašku, was probably named after the early Armenian or related “black” thunder god *Aram-".
- ^ Petrosyan 2002, p. 182.
- David Marshall Lang, Armenia: Cradle of Civilization (1970).
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