Rusa I [SEP] manner of death
Assyria. Rusa I committed suicide after this war.
The Armenian noble Rshtuni clan are said to be descendants of Rusa.
See also.
- List of kings of Urartu
stages.
In 714 BC, King Sargon II led an offensive into Urartian territory. His early victories, especially at the Battle of Lake Urmia and his ransack of the head Uratuan temple at Mushashir, almost caused total defeat for his Uratuan counterpart, King Rusa I.
Uratuan counterattack.
After Sargon's death in 706 BC, King Rusa's successor, Argishti II, launched a major counterattack, with his forces driving the Assyrians back across the pre-war border and deep into Assyrian colonies in northwestern Iran, reconquering