Ասորեստանյան Տարրերը Բարձրավանդակի Երկաթի Դարի Մշակույթում. Եղեգնաձորի Գանձի Զարդարված Բրոնզե Թասը / Assyrianizing Elements in the Iron Age Cultures of the Highland։ the Decorated Bronze Bowl From the Yeghegnadzor Hoard

Abstract

Among the most well-known Urartian materials one can find the bronze bowls: they usually have the same shape and bear an incised decoration in the centre surrounded by a cuneiform inscription indicating the name of the sovereign owning them. This article, instead, deals with a single specimen, found in the town of Yeghegnadzor (Armenia), which only presents the incised decoration in the centre: even this decoration is indeed a unicum among the Urartian bronze bowls, as it doesn’t appear on any other known specimen. The authors will analyze the bowl in detail, presenting different comparisons both to the shape itself and to its decoration, and framing it with the context where it was found.