Metal Inscriptions
B 12-1
B 12-2
B 12-3
B 12-4
B 12-5
B 12-6
B 12-7
B 12-8
B 12-9
B 12-10
B 12-11
B 12-12
B 12-13
B 12-14
B 12-15
B 12-16
B 12-17
B 12-18
B 12-1
Description:
Bronze shield with inscription of two lines. Provenience: Ayanis, now kept in the Van Museum.
Edition:
Access the edition [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Q007865/] of B 12-1.
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Dimensions:
Bibliography:
Salvini, Mirjo (2001): Royal Inscriptions on Bronze Artifacts, in: Altan Çilingiroğlu and Mirjo Salvini (Eds.): Ayanis I. Ten year's Excavations in Rusahinili Eiduru-kai (Documenta Asiana 6), Roma 2001, 270.
Seidl, Ursula (2004): Bronzekunst Urartus, Mainz 2004, 41 (I.13).
B 12-02
Description:
Two fragments of bronze shield with inscription of two lines. Provenience: Ayanis, now kept in the Van Museum.
Edition:
Access the edition [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Q007866/] of B 12-2.
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Dimensions:
fragment A: height: 5.5 cm; width: 11 cm
fragment B: height: 5.4 cm; width: 10.5 cm
B 12-03
Description:
Fragment of a bronze shield. Provenience: Ayanis, now kept in the Van Museum.
Edition:
Access the edition [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Q007867/] of B 12-3.
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Dimensions:
height: 3.5 cm; width: 10 cm
B 12-04
Description:
Bronze shield with inscription of one line. Provenience: Ayanis, now kept in the Van Museum.
Edition:
Access the edition [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Q007868/] of B 12-4.
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Dimensions:
Bibliography:
Derin, Zafer and Altan Çilingiroğlu (2001): in: Çilingiroğlu, Altan and Mirjo Salvini (Eds.): Ayanis I: Ten Years' Excavations at Rusahinili Eiduru-kai 1989–1998. (Documenta Asiana 6) Rome 2001, 162f. N° 17, 185, fig. 19 (photo of the reverse).
Salvini, Mirjo (2001): Royal Inscriptions on Bronze Artifacts, in: Çilingiroğlu, Altan and Mirjo Salvini (Eds.): Ayanis I: Ten Years' Excavations at Rusahinili Eiduru-kai 1989–1998. (Documenta Asiana 6) Rome 2001, 272 (AyBr 2).
Seidl, Ursula (2004): Bronzekunst Urartus, Mainz 2004, 41sg. (I.14).
B 12-05
Description:
Bronze shield with inscription of one line. Provenience is Ayanis, now kept in the Van Museum.
Edition:
Access the edition [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Q007869/] of B 12-5.
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Dimensions:
Bibliography:
Salvini, Mirjo (2001): Royal Inscriptions on Bronze Artifacts, in: Altan Çilingiroğlu and Mirjo Salvini (eds): Ayanis I. Ten year's Excavations in Rusahinili Eiduru-kai (Documenta Asiana 6), Roma 2001, 279f., 288 tab. IIa (detailed photos of the inscription).
Seidl, Ursula (2004): Bronzekunst Urartus, Mainz 2004, 41 (I.16).
B 12-06
Description:
Five fragments of a bronze shield (?) with inscription of one line. Provenience: Ayanis, now kept in the Van Museum.
Edition:
Access the edition [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Q007870/] of B 12-6.
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Dimensions:
fragment a: height: 8 cm; width: 22 cm
fragment b: height: 4 cm; width: 6 cm
Concordance:
B 12-07
Description:
Visible part of an unpublished shield; restaurated. Provenience is Ayanis, now kept in the Van Museum.
Edition:
Access the edition [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Q007871/] of B 12-7.
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B 12-08
Description:
Two fragments of a bronze shield with inscription. Provenience is Toprakkale, now kept in the Van Musuem (no. B.M. 116736).
Edition:
Access the edition [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Q007872/] of 12-8.
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Bibliography:
Belck, Waldemar and Carl Friedrich Lehmann-Haupt, (1894): Ein neuer Herrscher von Chaldia, Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie 9 1894, 95.
Concordance:
Salvini (2008 and 2018): CTU B 12-8 = Lehmann-Haupt (1928-1935): ClCh 154 = König (1955-1957): HchI 130 (= Melikišvili (1960): UKN 282 + 296a) = Arutjunjan (2001): KUKN 413 = Barnett, Richard D. (1982): Urartu, The Cambridge Ancient History, Cambridge, 1982, 167f. N° 5 fig. 4. = Seidl, Ursula (2004): Bronzekunst Urartus, Mainz 2004, 42 (I.23).
B 12-09
Description:
Bronze helmet with inscription of two lines between three curbs. Provenience: Ayanis, now kept in the Van Museum.
Edition:
Access the edition [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Q007873/] of B 12-9.
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Dimensions:
height: 30 cm; diam.: 26 cm
Bibliography:
Seidl, Ursula (2004): Bronzekunst Urartus, Mainz 2004, 41 (I.12).
Derin, Zafer and Altan Çilingiroğlu (2001): Armour and Weapons, in: Altan Çilingiroğlu and Mirjo Salvini (Eds.): Ayanis I. Ten year's Excavations in Rusahinili Eiduru-kai (Documenta Asiana 6), Roma 2001, 181, fig. 59.
B 12-10
Description:
Two pieces of a bronze helmet. Provenience: Ayanis, now kept in the Van Museum.
Edition:
Access the edition [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Q007874/] of B 12-10.
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Dimensions:
height: 31 cm; diam.: 27 cm
Bibliography:
Seidl, Ursula (2004): Bronzekunst Urartus, Mainz 2004, 41 (I.11).
B 12-11
Description:
Handle of a lance with inscription of cultic content (votive offering to the god Haldi). Provenience: Ayanis, now kept in the Van Museum.
Edition:
Access the edition [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Q007875/] of B 12-11.
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Dimensions:
height: 73.8 cm; width: 7.9 cm; depth: 2.2 cm; thickness: 2.8 cm
Bibliography:
Derin, Zafer and Altan Çilingiroğlu (2001) in: in: Altan Çilingiroğlu and Mirjo Salvini (Eds.): Ayanis I. Ten year's Excavations in Rusahinili Eiduru-kai (Documenta Asiana 6), Roma 2001, 157f., 173 fig. 5.
Çilingiroğlu, Altan and Mirjo Salvini (1999): When was the castle of Ayanis built and what is the meaning of the word 'šuri' ?, Anatolian Studies 49, 1999, 55-60.
Salvini, Mirjo (2001): Royal Inscriptions on Bronze Artifacts, in: Altan Çilingiroğlu and Mirjo Salvini (Eds.), Ayanis I. Ten year's Excavations in Rusahinili Eiduru-kai (Documenta Asiana 6), Roma 2001, 275, 277 (photo).
Seidl, Ursula (2004): Bronzekunst Urartus, Mainz 2004, 42 (I.29).
B 12-12
Description:
Spearhead. Provenience: Ayanis.
Edition:
Access the edition [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Q007876/] of B 12-12.
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Dimensions:
length: 46.5 cm; width of the blade: 3 cm; width of the sword handle: 3 cm; thickness of the blade: 6 mm.
Bibliography:
Salvini, Mirjo (2001): Royal Inscriptions on Bronze Artifacts, in: Altan Çilingiroğlu and Mirjo Salvini (Eds.), Ayanis I. Ten year's Excavations in Rusahinili Eiduru-kai (Documenta Asiana 6), Roma 2001, 275.
Seidl, Ursula (2004): Bronzekunst Urartus, Mainz 2004, 42 (I.28).
B 12-13
Description:
Two bronze cylinders. Provenience is Ayanis, now kept in the Van Museum.
Edition:
Access the edition [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Q007877/] of B 12-13.
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Dimensions:
diam.: 7.1 cm; height: 3.7 and 3.8 cm
Bibliography:
Salvini, Mirjo (2001): Royal Inscriptions on Bronze Artifacts, in: Altan Çilingiroğlu and Mirjo Salvini (Eds.), Ayanis I. Ten year's Excavations in Rusahinili Eiduru-kai (Documenta Asiana 6), Roma 2001, 275, 278 fig. 4.
Çilingiroğlu, Altan (2001) in: Altan Çilingiroğlu and Mirjo Salvini (Eds.), Ayanis I. Ten year's Excavations in Rusahinili Eiduru-kai (Documenta Asiana 6), Roma 2001, 38, 233 fig. 6 (photo).
Seidl, Ursula (2004): Bronzekunst Urartus, Mainz 2004, 40 (I.1; I.2).
B 12-14
Description:
Four pegs (sikkatu) with inscription. Provenience: Ayanis, now kept in the Van Museum.
Edition:
Access the edition [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Q007878/] of B 12-14.
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Dimensions:
height (knob): 11 cm; height (inscription): 1.2 cm
Bibliography:
Reindell, Ingrid (2001): in: Altan Çilingiroğlu and Mirjo Salvini (Eds.), Ayanis I. Ten year's Excavations in Rusahinili Eiduru-kai (Documenta Asiana 6), Roma 2001, 383 and 389 (fig. 8).
Salvini, Mirjo (2001): in: Altan Çilingiroğlu and Mirjo Salvini (Eds.), Ayanis I. Ten year's Excavations in Rusahinili Eiduru-kai (Documenta Asiana 6), Roma 2001, 276f. and fig. 3a-b (photo).
Seidl, Ursula (2004): Bronzekunst Urartus, Mainz 2004, 40 (I.3 - I.6).
B 12-15
Description:
Bronze bolt (lock bar) with inscription on the outer surface of the larger ring. Provenience: Karmir-blur, now kept in the Heremitage (no. 17745) in Saint Petersburg.
Edition:
Access the edition [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Q007879/] of B 12-15.
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Dimensions:
long bar: length: 46.5 cm
two rings on both sides: diam.: 7 and 13 cm
Bibliography:
Piotrovskij, Boris B. (1948): Gorod Tejšebaini v urartskoj klinoobraznoj nadpisi, EV II, 1948, 83-85 (with photo on 84 fig. 1).
Piotrovskij, Boris B. (1950): Karmir-blur I. Rezul'taty raskopok 1939-1949 gg., Erevan 1950, 20f. fig. 3.
Piotrovskij, Boris B. (1970): Karmir-blur. Al'bom, Izdatel'stvo "Avrora", Leningrad 1970, fig. 25 and fig. 26.
Medvedskaja, Inna. N. and Juri Ju. Piotrovskij (2011): Urartskie drevnosti v Gosudarstvennom Ermitaže. Katalog kollekcij, Sankt Peterburg 2011, 627, 653, N° 952.
Concordance:
Salvini (2008 and 2018): CTU B 12-15 = Melikišvili (1960): UKN 283 = König (1955-1957): HchI 130A = Arutjunjan (2001): KUKN 422 = Seidl, Ursula (2004): Bronzekunst Urartus, Mainz 2004, 41 (I.8).
B 12-16
Description:
Bronze cup with extreme accurate inscription. Provenience: Karmir-blur, now kept in the Erebuni Museum (Erevan).
Edition:
Access the edition [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Q007880/] of B 12-16.
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Bibliography:
Piotrovskij, Boris B. (1951): Klinoobraznye nadpisi na bronzovych čašach iz raskopok na Karmir-blure v 1949 g., EV V, 1951, 112, fig. 8 (photo).
Piotrovskij, Boris B. (1952): Karmir-blur II. Rezul'taty raskopok 1949-1950 gg., Erevan 1952, 20, 61.
Concordance:
Salvini (2008 and 2018): CTU B 12-16 = Melikišvili (1960): UKN 285 = König (1955-1957): HchI 130 C = Arutjunjan (2001): KUKN 423 = Seidl, Ursula (2004): Bronzekunst Urartus, Mainz 2004, 41 (I.10).
B 12-17
Description:
Bowl with inscription (propriety note: Rusa). Provenience: Toprakkale.
Edition:
Access the edition [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Q007881/] of B 12-17.
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B 12-18
Description:
Bronze candelabrum. Provenience is Toprakkale, now kept in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe (no. 1960.61) in Hamburg.
Edition:
Access the edition [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Q007882/] of B 12-18.
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Dimensions:
Bibliography:
Lehmann-Haupt, Carl Friedrich (1907): Materialien zur älteren Geschichte Armeniens und Mesopotamiens (Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Phil.-hist. Klasse, NF Band IX Nr. 3), Berlin 1907, 93.
Hoffmann, H. and Johannes Friedrich (1961): Der urartäische Kandelaber und seine Keilinschrift, Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 111 (N.F. 36) 1961, 283-287.
Concordance:
Salvini (2008 and 2018): CTU B 12-18 = Melikišvili (1971a): UKN II 443 = Arutjunjan (2001): KUKN 395 = Seidl, Ursula (2004): Bronzekunst Urartus, Mainz 2004, 41 (I.9).
B 12-18
Description:
Gold staff of queen Qaquli with inscription. Provenience: Ayanis.
Edition:
Access the edition [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/Q007883/] of B 12-18.
Sources:
Bibliography:
Salvini, Mirjo (2012): An Urartian Queen of the VIIth Century BC, appendix to: Çilingiroğlu, Altan: New Contributions to Urartian Archaeology from the Fortress at Ayanis, Anatolian Iron Ages VII in Edirne, Peeters 2012.
Birgit Christiansen, 'Metal Inscriptions', Electronic Corpus of Urartian Texts (eCUT) Project, The eCUT Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2020 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ecut/urartianrulersandtheirinscriptions/rusasonofargitiiia12andb12/metalinscriptions/]
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