entity · text_srsc1_nairi_lands
Nairi lands
Also known as: Nairi, Lands of Nairi
An Assyrian external designation for multiple northern lands, rulers, or regions encountered in campaign narratives.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
1200 BCE–800 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · provides or interprets textual attestation
Tiglath-pileser I 13 (RINAP/RIAO Q005938) — Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period / ORACC
Locator: Relevant inscription, historical synthesis, or source criticism - informs · provides or interprets textual attestation
The Kingdom of Urartu — Yervand H. Grekyan (2023)
Locator: Relevant inscription, historical synthesis, or source criticism
Research description
Nairi is not modeled as a single kingdom or ethnicity. The term's geographic scope and political composition changed between texts.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
External textual label
A name preserved in an outside power's texts rather than a securely attested self-designation.
Why does this record have this property?
The assignment identifies the naming perspective and genre. Geography, political scale, and any linguistic or ethnic attribution require separate evidence.
- The Kingdom of Urartu
contextualizes · Textual geography and chronology - Tiglath-pileser I 13 (RINAP/RIAO Q005938)
supports assignment · Royal inscription naming northern lands
Evidence and sources
- supports · provides or interprets textual attestation
Tiglath-pileser I 13 (RINAP/RIAO Q005938) — Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period / ORACCSource linked to entity record text_srsc1_nairi_lands.
Locator: Relevant inscription, historical synthesis, or source criticism - supports · provides or interprets textual attestation
The Kingdom of Urartu — Yervand H. Grekyan (2023)Source linked to entity record text_srsc1_nairi_lands.
Locator: Relevant inscription, historical synthesis, or source criticism