Annarita Bonfanti

University of Pavia | UNIPV · Department of Humanities

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...

This paper discusses a bronze belt currently kept in Orumiyeh Museum; its distinctive morphology and decoration are closely paralleled by another belt found in the area of Gargul, Piranshahr, not so long ago. The iconography of this belt shows a possible Assyrian influence, while the artefact itself is clearly of Southern Caucasian derivation; rega...

This article discusses a bronze belt kept in the Orumiyeh Museum. The belt, almost completely preserved, has a geometric decoration consisting of five parallel bands filled with small embossed dots: this kind of decoration has many parallels spread from the Southern Caucasus to the north-western region of Iran (mainly from the site of Hasanlu). In...

In 2013 an Urartian tomb has been identified by chance during the construction of a house in the village of Aghavnadzor in Vayots Dzor Region, Armenia. Despite the tomb was heavily damaged, archaeologists were able to dig it and document it before its destruction. The multiple burial showed the contemporary coexistence of inhumation and incineratio...

The Vayots Dzor Project (VDP) is an Armenian-Italian archaeological research project involving both survey and excavation activities, conducted in accordance with an agreement between IAE NAS RA (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography NAS RA) and ISMEO-International Association of Mediterranean and Oriental Studies, co-funded by IAE NAS RA, Gfoel...