Arin-Berd
Arin-Berd (also Arin-berd , Arinberd , Arinbert , Armenian Արին բերդ , meaning "Aryan fortress") is a hill southeast of Yerevan , Armenia . The remains of the fortified settlement of Erebuni from the beginning of the 8th century BC were found in this hill .
Scientists first became aware of Arin-Berd in 1894 when the Russian anthropologist Alexei Arsenyevich Ivanovsky bought a stone with Urartian cuneiform script from a resident of a neighboring village , which he had found on Arin-Berd in 1879. The Russian orientalist Michail Wassiljewitsch Nikolski published a drawing and an approximate translation of the inscription. Accordingly, the text says that the Urartian king Argišti I had a granary with a capacity of 10,100 Kapi built at this point.
In 1950 archaeological excavations were carried out during which the fortified settlement of Erebuni was discovered. Erebuni was built in 782 BCE under King Argišti I to protect the Urartians who settled in the Ararat plain . The excavations provided insights into the history of the Urartian Empire .
literature
- Kostandin Levoni Howhannisjan : Arin-Berd I, Architektura Erebuni po materialam raskopok 1950–1959 vs. Isdatelstwo AN Armjanskoi SSR, Yerevan 1961 (Russian, original title: Арин-Берд I, Архитектура гимс 1950 .
- Svetlana Ismailovna Chodschasch , NS Truchtanowa, Kostandin Levoni Howhannisjan: Erebuni. Pamjatnik Urartskogo sodchestva VIII – VI v. do ne Iskusstwo, Moscow 1979 (Russian, original title: Эребуни. Памятник Урартского зодчества VIII – VI в. до н. э. ).
Coordinates: 40 ° 8 ′ 25.8 ″ N , 44 ° 32 ′ 16.8 ″ E