TWO URARTIAN INSCRIBED BRONZE HARNESS-DISKS
TWO URARTIAN INSCRIBED BRONZE HARNESS-DISKS

CIRCA FIRST QUARTER OF THE 8TH CENTURY B.C.

細節
TWO URARTIAN INSCRIBED BRONZE HARNESS-DISKS
Circa First Quarter of the 8th Century B.C.
Each slightly convex and pierced at the center, engraved with an inscription in Urartian cuneiform between concentric circles, with the name of Inuspa, reading, "I-nu-us-pu-a-i-ni-e-i ú-ri-is-hu-si-ni-e-i," one with a hieroglyph of a lion's head in profile to the left
3 9/16 in. (9 cm.) diameter (larger) (2)
來源
Marcel Ebnöther Collection, Les Arcs, France.
出版
Merhav, ed., Exhibition Catalogue, Urartu, A Metalworking Center in the First Millennium B.C.E., Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, 1991, p. 83, nos. 35-36, Appendix 1, nos. 10-11.
Vanden Berghe and De Meyer, eds., Exhibition Catalogue, Urartu -- een vergeten cultuur uit het bergland Armenië, Ghent, 1982, nos. 44-45.
展覽
Ghent, Museum of Fine Arts, Urartu - een vertegen cultuur uit bergland Armenië, October 9, 1982 - January 30, 1983.
Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, Urartu - A Metalworking Center in the First Millennium B.C.E., May 28 - October 7, 1991.