Definitions

1. Aratta is a place name often mentioned in Sumerian texts, and it may have been the area of northwestern Iran along the Caspian sea.
2. Aratta was an ancient state formation of renown somewhere in the Middle East or South Asia, since ca.
3. Aratta was known for its stone, metals, craftsmen and artisans.
4. Aratta is mentioned again in a third, briefer story known as "Lugulbanda and Enmerkar". (Web site)
5. Aratta is often mentioned by modern historians in connection with the later regional powers of Mannai, Urartu and the Medes.

Stone

1. She advises Enmerkar to carry off Aratta's "worked metal and metalsmiths and worked stone and stonemasons" and all the "moulds of Aratta will be his". (Web site)

Armenia

1. Others believe that Aratta was located in Armenia or Persia. (Web site)

Craftsmen

1. Although the ending is fragmentary, Aratta eventually seems to provide the materials and craftsmen. (Web site)

Enmerkar

1. Enmerkar desperately sends his messenger, Lugulbanda, to Aratta to the goddess Inanna, here called his sister. (Web site)
2. Upon hearing this, Enmerkar spends ten years preparing an ornate sceptre, then sends it to Aratta with his messenger. (Web site)
3. In this tale the ruler of Aratta, Ensuhkeshdanna (or Ensukushsiranna), demanded that Enmerkar become his vassal.

Vassal State

1. Enmerkar and his army are traveling to Aratta to make it a vassal state. (Web site)

Lord

1. The Anshan-Hamadan area of western Iran was the choice of S. Cohen who translated one of four sources to mention Aratta, Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta. (Web site)
2. The lord of Aratta, however, demanded that Enmerkar first deliver large amounts of grain to him.

Precious Stones

1. Aratta had building materials, precious stones, metals and craftsmen skilled in their transformation. (Web site)

Ararat

1. The name also resembles Ararat, and the mountain is indeed located in the possible area of Aratta.

Lake Van

1. Another hypothesis would locate Aratta on the eastern side of Lake Van near the Turkish Iranian border.

Urartu

1. This section was later known as Ararat or Urartu which could be corruptions of Aratta.

Hurrians

1. Two legendary empires, Melidi and Aratta, served the Hurrians in their inter-regional trade with the economies outside the mountains.

Jiroft

1. Some believe that Jiroft is the ancient city of Aratta, which was described as a great civilization in a Sumerian clay inscription. (Web site)

Sumer

1. There is also a Sumerian story about a mountainous kingdom accessible from Sumer by river called Aratta.

Uruk

1. The epics revolve around the conflict between the cities of Uruk (biblical Erech) in ancient Iraq and Aratta in neighboring Iran.
2. Nuard-Anahit We know from the Aratta-Erech epic tales that Inanna was the goddess of Aratta, as well as that of the city of Erech (Uruk) in Summer. (Web site)

Aratta

1. Post a question or answer questions about "Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta" at WikiAnswers. (Web site)
2. The lord of Aratta, in a fit of pride, refuses and instead asks Enmerkar to deliver to him these precious stones himself. (Web site)
3. Enmerkar and Ensuh-keshdanna describes a similar contest between Enmerkar of Uruk and Ensuh-keshdanna, the Lord of Aratta.

Categories

1. Uruk
2. Settlements > Cities > City > Jiroft
3. History > Bronze Age > Mesopotamia > Hurrians
4. Lake Van
5. Precious Stones
6. Books about "Aratta" in Amazon.com
   

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