Exploration and Comparison of Urartian Metal Findings of Northwest Iran, with Similar Exotic Case Studies

Subject Areas : Prehistoric Archaeology

Seyed Ali Asghar Mirfatah ¹ , Reza Saburi Nojehdehi ²

1 - Assistant Professor, Department of Archaeology, Islamic Azad University Abhar branch, Abhar, Iran.
2 - M.A. in Archaeology

Received: 2023-07-23 Accepted : 2023-07-23 Published : 2009-02-19

Keywords: Northwest Iran, urartu, Metalwork,

Abstract :

Research and exploration on discovered Urartian metal findings from Iran’s ancient sites, now kept in Iran’s Archaeology museum, constitutes the main subject of the current article, in which with regard to structural techniques such as casting, moulding, brazing and…, metal working has been studied as one of the most distinguishing artistic and industrial elements of the first millenniums BC civilization. As a result of the research and comparison of applied techniques on mentioned findings, it turns out that Urartian metalworking in Anatolia territory-backed by thousand years experiments of craftsmen of this land-had reached its peak and was carried out with great dexterity, especially in the context of casting of delicate objects such as arrow heads and safety pins with a chain. After arriving in Northwest Iran this art was influenced by technical and artistic experiments of northwest metal working, although, regarding structure and from, metal productions of Northwest Iran were exactly similar to Anatoli samples some artistic and industrial elements of Northwest Iran metalworking had appeared in them. Further, Northwest Iran metalworkers following Urartian industrial techniques and forms had applied their local techniques and experiments in producing metal products. Meanwhile, some Urartian metalwork were imported products.