Lutipri

[1] Lutipri may have ruled Urartu between 844 and 834 BCE, in a period of obscurity after the destruction of the former capital Arzashkun by Shalmaneser III.

[2] As Sarduri I may have established a new dynasty, it is possible that his father, Lutipri, was not actually a king of Urartu.

[3] An inscription, in Assyrian cuneiform, on a small fortification west of the citadel of Tushpa, mentions his son as builder of a wall, and it is likely that he is in fact the founder of the town.

Sarduri, son of Lutipri, says: I brought these stone blocks from the city of Alniunu.

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