Sarduri IV was one of the last kings

Monarch

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 of Urartu

Urartu

Urartu , corresponding to Ararat or Kingdom of Van was an Iron Age kingdom centered around Lake Van in the Armenian Highland....

, reigning from 615 to 595 BC.

Sarduri IV was the son and successor of Rusa III

Rusa III

Rusa III was king of Urartu. He was called son of Erimena, probably the brother of Rusa II. Not much is known from his reign; his name was on a huge granary at Armavir and a series of bronze shields from the temple of Khaldi found at Rusahinili, now held in the British Museum...

. Little is known about his reign, except that his kingdom was being invaded by Assyria

Assyria

Assyria was a Semitic Akkadian kingdom, extant as a nation state from the mid–23rd century BC to 608 BC centred on the Upper Tigris river, in northern Mesopotamia , that came to rule regional empires a number of times through history. It was named for its original capital, the ancient city of Assur...

n forces from the south, east and west, as well as by the Medes

Medes

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 from the east and the Scythians from the north.

He died without issue

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 and was succeeded by his brother Rusa IV

Rusa IV

Rusa IV was king of Urartu from 590 BC to 585 BC. Rusa IV was the son and a successor of Rusa III, and the successor of Sarduri IV. His name is mentioned on a number of clay tablets found at Karmir Blur , including tablets bearing his own royal inscriptions. However, almost nothing is known about...

.

Further reading

• Boris Piotrovskii, The Ancient Civilization of Urartu, London, 1969.
• Igor Diakonoff, The Pre-History of the Armenian People, Caravan Books, New York, 1988.
• M. Chahin, The Kingdom of Armenia, Curzon, London, 2001.
• Գ. Ղափանցյան, Ուրարտուի պատմությունը, Yerevan, 1940, pp. 143–152 (in Armenian)
• Пиотровский Б. Б., Ванское царство (Урарту), Moscow, 1959 (in Russian)
• Арутюнян Н. В., Биайнили (Урарту), Published by Academy of Sciences of Armenian SSR, Yerevan, 1970 (in Russian).
• Арутюнян Н. В., Некоторые вопросы последнего периода истории Урарту // Древний Восток, Published by Academy of Sciences of Armenian SSR, Yerevan, No. 2, 1976 (in Russian)
• Дьяконов И. М., Последние годы Урартского государства по ассиро-вавилонским источникам // Вестник Древней Истории, No 2, 1951 (in Russian)