Adana Bölge Müzesindeki Urartu kemerleri = The Urartian belts in the Adana Regio

From the estate of Dr. Jutta Börker-Klähn (1942-2019), private lecturer in Ancient Oriental Studies at the universities of Berlin, Würzburg and Hamburg. - A good and clean copy. - Text bilingual Turkish and English - From the text: The Urartians founded a Kingdom in the district of Van around the first millennium B.C., expanding by force within two centuries to on area including Aleppo and Antioch. In the 9th, 8th and 7th centuries B.C. craftsmanship and art attained the highest quality. The Urartian temples and palaces with their monumental buttress-like structures were able to compete with Assyrian architecture. In particular, the bronze crafts of this civilisation became some of the most sought-after objects of import in the Near Eastern, Phrygian, Greek and Etruscan states.

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