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<< Text Pages >> Anzaf - Hillfort in Turkey

Submitted by davidmorgan on Friday, 14 January 2011  Page Views: 3598

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Anzaf
Country: Turkey
NOTE: This site is 1.154 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Van
Latitude: 38.558939N  Longitude: 43.471033E
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Cuneiform inscriptions made visible on bronze plates from the Upper Anzaf Fortress by davidmorgan on Friday, 14 January 2011
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(An old article from 1994).

X-ray study of bronze plates from a fortress of the 1st millennium BC reveals cuneiform inscriptions on metal surfaces that are now wholly hidden by corrosion.

The two Anzaf fortresses of the Urartu period are located in east Anatolia, near the Van lake. The older is the Lower Anzaf Fortress, constructed by King Ispuini (830-810 BC); the younger and larger Upper Anzaf Fortress was constructed on a higher hill 600 m to the south.

The Upper Anzaf Fortress is 11 km northwest of the Urartu capital Tuspa (today Van) in eastern Anatolia, near the modern highway and railway from Van to Iran; with its magnificent appearance, the Upper Fortress is considered to have been constructed for economic and military aims.

The excavation of the Upper Fortress by Belli's team is the only official excavation of the Urartu period in Turkey (Belli 1992). The temple in the Fortress is the oldest of the Urartu period in eastern Anatolia.

During the 1991 excavation, a big bronze hoard was found in the vicinity of the west gate of the temple precinct. It consists of various bronze fragments, parts, plates and weapons, separated by fire into hundreds of pieces (Tugrul & Belli 1992).

Cleaning and conservation have revealed that some fragments are ornamented. On some fragments, the figures are easily perceived; on others, more affected by the fire, they have to be traced closely. In this study, some of the bronze plates are investigated by radiography.

As usual, radiography was used to determine the inner structure of the matter by penetrating radiation (Halmshaw 1971; Mix 1987); for this study X-rays were used.

On a bronze plate, no inscriptions are seen; on the radiograph, a curving line of cuneiform can be seen. It carries the name of King Ispuini.

On two little bronze plates, again no inscriptions are seen; the radiograph also reveals cuneiform.

These artefacts are the first fragments from a scientific excavation to provide cuneiform scripts from the time of King Ispuini. The Upper Anzaf Fortress, from where the plates come, was constructed by King Menua (810-786 BC), son of King Ispuini. The inscriptions of his father's time show the plates are earlier than their findspot would have us think.

Acknowledgements. We are grateful to the personnel of Istanbul Technical University's Institute for Nuclear Energy, and Istanbul University's Department of Ancient History for helping us in this study.

References

BELLI, O. 1992. Excavation of Van-Anzaf Urartu fortresses, Archaeology and Art 54-5: 13-30, (In Turkish.)

HALMSHAW, R. 1971. Industrial radiology techniques. London: Wykeham.

Mix, P.E. 1987. Introduction to nondestructive testing, New York (NY): John Wiley.

TUGRUL, A. & O. BELLI. 1992. Evaluation of bronze artefacts from Van-Anzaf Urartu fortress by the radiography techniques. The 14th International Symposium of Excavations, Surveys and Archaeomentry, Ankara. Proceedings of Results of VIII. Archaeometry Meeting: 441-52. (In Turkish.)

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