Kelashin
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Kelashin ( also spelled: Kel-a-Shin, Kel-a Shin, Kelishin, meaning "blue holy stone" in Kurdish.) ; ) is a mountain village in northern Iraq, near the Kelishin Pass (2,981m) to Iran, some 80 km south-west of Lake Urmia. The Kelishin stele located there bears an important Urartian-Assyrian bilingue dating to ca. 800 BC, first described by Friedrich Eduard Schulz in 1827. Part of Schulz' notes were lost as he was killed by Kurds, and later expeditions were either prevented by weather conditions or Kurdish brigants, so that a copy (latex squeeze) of the inscription could only be made in 1951 by G. Cameron, and again 1976 by an Italian party under heavy military protection.
The inscriptions describes the acquisition of the city of Musasir (Ardini) by the Urartian king Ishpuini.
[edit] Literature
Warren C. Benedict, The Urartian-Assyrian Inscription of Kelishin, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 81, No. 4 (1961), pp. 359-385.
