RETHINKING: ON THE URARTIAN IVORY ARTEFACTS

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RETHINKING: ON THE URARTIAN IVORY ARTEFACTS

RETHINKING: ON THE URARTIAN IVORY ARTEFACTS

Authors : Esra ALP

Pages : 135-159

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Publication Date : 2017-11-12

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Ivory carving, which is thought to enter Anatolia as a result of highly advanced commercial and cultural relations of the 1st Millennia BC, spread to a wider area and every region created their own school once it became a tradable product. The ivory artefacts found in Urartian settlements such as Altıntepe, Toprakkale and Kamir Blur suggest that Urartu was not indifferent to ‘Ivory Artefact Carving’, which is also known to exist in the 1st Millennia BC in Syria, Iran, Assyria, Phoenicia, Phrygia, and some of the Neo-Hittite Kingdoms. Technical competence seen in these artefacts brings up the question of whether they came to the Urartian lands via commercial activities such as import and export between these small states or it was Urartu’s own development of turning this art into local production.
Keywords : Urartu, Urartian Art, Ivory Artefacts, Trade

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