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The Anzaf Fortresses and The Gods of Urartu / Oktay Belli, translated by Geoffrey D.Summers and Ayça Üzel.

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Series: Arkeoloji ve Sanat Yayınları. Research, Study and Documentation Series ; ; 2a. | Arkeoloji ve Sanat Yayınları. Research, Study and Documentation Series ; ; 2a. Publication details: Galatasaray, Istanbul : Arkeoloji ve Sanat Yayınları, c1999.Description: 96 p., xxxii p. plates : ill. (some col.), maps, figure (folded) ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 9756899018
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • DS181 B459 1999
Contents:
I. Introduction -- II. The Lower Anzaf Fortress -- III. The Upper Anzaf Fortress -- 1. The East Gate of the Lower City -- 2. Storage Buildings -- 3. The High Tower and the North and South Gates -- 4. The Temple and the North-Western Buildings -- IV. The Meher Kapısı -- V. The Fragments of Bronze Shield -- A. The Depiction of the Gods -- B. The Battle Scene.
Summary: The pascinating pictorial scenes on pieces of a bronze shield from a room on the west side of the Haldi Temple in the Upper Anzaf Fortress, discovered in 1995, add greatly to our knowledge of Urartian religion and art. During the fire caused by a Scyhtian attack in the late seventh century B.C. objects and weapons of bronze and iron stored in this small room became molten and distorted, a large portion turning to slag. In recent years conservation of this mass of molten metal, weighing more than 13 kilograms, a number of bronze and iron objects and weapons have been recovered and preserved for the benefit of science. In particular, seven votive rings of cast bronze with cuneiform inscriptions from the co-regency of King Ispuini, Menua and Inuspua has added much to the poorly known political history in the early period of the Urartian Kingdom. Most of the fragments of bronze sheet bearing pictorial scenes come, it has been realised from the same large shield. Conservation of the bronzes is still continuing. Conservation a 78 cm.long piece of the shield over the last three years has, however, revealed scenes of great interest that shed significant new light on our understanding of the art and, particularly, the religion of Urartu. A row of 12 gods are depicted in the same sequence as the pantheon of gods in the Meher Kapı rock inscription which provides much detailed information on the religion of Urartu. Nothing similar to the pantheon in the Meher Kapı inscription, where each god is gven his divine attributes and local characteristics, has previously been found.
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Books Books Hollanda Araştırma Enstitüsü Kütüphanesi / Netherlands Institute in Turkey Library DS181, B459 1999 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Not For Loan 10310

Original title is " Anzaf Kaleleri ve Urartu Tanrıları "

Bibliographical references included in " Selected Bibliography " (p. 89-93) and index.

I. Introduction -- II. The Lower Anzaf Fortress -- III. The Upper Anzaf Fortress -- 1. The East Gate of the Lower City -- 2. Storage Buildings -- 3. The High Tower and the North and South Gates -- 4. The Temple and the North-Western Buildings -- IV. The Meher Kapısı -- V. The Fragments of Bronze Shield -- A. The Depiction of the Gods -- B. The Battle Scene.

The pascinating pictorial scenes on pieces of a bronze shield from a room on the west side of the Haldi Temple in the Upper Anzaf Fortress, discovered in 1995, add greatly to our knowledge of Urartian religion and art. During the fire caused by a Scyhtian attack in the late seventh century B.C. objects and weapons of bronze and iron stored in this small room became molten and distorted, a large portion turning to slag. In recent years conservation of this mass of molten metal, weighing more than 13 kilograms, a number of bronze and iron objects and weapons have been recovered and preserved for the benefit of science. In particular, seven votive rings of cast bronze with cuneiform inscriptions from the co-regency of King Ispuini, Menua and Inuspua has added much to the poorly known political history in the early period of the Urartian Kingdom. Most of the fragments of bronze sheet bearing pictorial scenes come, it has been realised from the same large shield. Conservation of the bronzes is still continuing. Conservation a 78 cm.long piece of the shield over the last three years has, however, revealed scenes of great interest that shed significant new light on our understanding of the art and, particularly, the religion of Urartu. A row of 12 gods are depicted in the same sequence as the pantheon of gods in the Meher Kapı rock inscription which provides much detailed information on the religion of Urartu. Nothing similar to the pantheon in the Meher Kapı inscription, where each god is gven his divine attributes and local characteristics, has previously been found.

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