Rethinking: On the Urartian ivory artefacts

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 Al...

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Published in:	Anadolu araştırmaları Vol. 2017; no. 20; pp. 135 - 159
Main Author:	Alp,Esra
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	İstanbul Üniversitesi Yayınları 01-01-2017
Subjects:	Coğrafya Tarih İstanbul Türkiye Trade Ivory Artefacts Urartu Sanatı Ticaret Urartian Art Yerel Üretim Local Production Fildişi Eserler Urartu
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Summary:	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.
ISSN:	0569-9746