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Lot Essay
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H.-J. Kellner, Ein Datierter Silberfund aus Urartu, Anadolu, XIX, Istanbul, 1975-6, p. 61, no. 4, pl. 4.2.
M. Salvini, Un Testo Celebrativo di Menua, Studi Micenei Egeo-Anatolici, Rome, 1980, pp. 182-3, no. B, pl. 1b.
L. Vanden Berghe and L. de Meyer, Urartu, een vergeten cultuur uit het bergland Armenië, exhibition catalogue, Ghent, 1983, p. 200, no. 166.
R. Merhav, Urartu, A Metalworking Center in the First Millennium B.C.E., exhibition catalogue, Jerusalem, 1991, pp. 216-9, no. 20.
M. Payne, Urartian Measures of Volume, Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Supplement 16, Herent, 2004, p. 323, no. M.Aa.38.
Situlae, such as this one, were used for ceremonial purposes throughout the Ancient Near East and can be seen in numerous pictorial representations. The largest group of these vessels come from Urartu. Rivka Merhav, op.cit., suggests that this situla can be dated to the reign of Ispuini (830-810 B.C.) because of the similarity of the griffin-bird handle terminals to other inscribed examples from this period.
H.-J. Kellner, Ein Datierter Silberfund aus Urartu, Anadolu, XIX, Istanbul, 1975-6, p. 61, no. 4, pl. 4.2.
M. Salvini, Un Testo Celebrativo di Menua, Studi Micenei Egeo-Anatolici, Rome, 1980, pp. 182-3, no. B, pl. 1b.
L. Vanden Berghe and L. de Meyer, Urartu, een vergeten cultuur uit het bergland Armenië, exhibition catalogue, Ghent, 1983, p. 200, no. 166.
R. Merhav, Urartu, A Metalworking Center in the First Millennium B.C.E., exhibition catalogue, Jerusalem, 1991, pp. 216-9, no. 20.
M. Payne, Urartian Measures of Volume, Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Supplement 16, Herent, 2004, p. 323, no. M.Aa.38.
Situlae, such as this one, were used for ceremonial purposes throughout the Ancient Near East and can be seen in numerous pictorial representations. The largest group of these vessels come from Urartu. Rivka Merhav, op.cit., suggests that this situla can be dated to the reign of Ispuini (830-810 B.C.) because of the similarity of the griffin-bird handle terminals to other inscribed examples from this period.