predecessor reign succession successor article_title name type
rusa ii 639-635 bc king of urartu erimena sarduri iii
 sarduri iii monarch
sarduri iii

sarduri iii was a king of urartu between 639 bc and 635 bc .
urartian king argishti ii left a record of fourteen years of his reign on the walls of chambers hewn in the rock of van , while sarduri iii 's victories are inscribed on a monument erected on a spot called `` the treasury gate '' in the fortress of van .
the urartians , then in close contact with the hittites in the west , had in the east as neighbours the minni or manni , in the southerly portion of the urmiah basin .
records of victories are also found inscribed farther north , on the shores of lake sevan , at gyumri and erzurum .
