Anzavurtepe
Anzavurtepe (also: Aznavurtepe) was a Urartian fortress on the Ağri plain in eastern Turkey ( Ağrı Province ). The place of discovery is sometimes also listed in the literature under Patnos and Ağri .
location
The Ağri Plain is 50 km northwest of Van at an altitude of 1650 m. It is bounded in the east by the Ala Daǧlar , in the south by the Süphan Dağı and in the west by the plain of Malazgirt . Climatically it is similar to the Van area.
Digs
From 1961 to 1963, Raci Temizer from the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations , Ankara, and Kemal Balkan carried out excavations in the Patnos district, including in Anzavurtepe (north of Patnos ) and Değirmentepe, 2 km south of the city. Among other things, botanical samples were taken, which today can no longer be assigned to a specific location.
The first structures were built under Menua . An inscription with the annals of the Menua comes from the temple. From an inscription of Išpuini only his name and that of his father can be read, as well as the information that he built something. According to a second inscription, he built a Susi house at the will of Ḫaldi , so probably a tower temple. Nothing of such magnificence had been built before. Išpuini, son of Sarduri built a fortress, the magnificence of which was also previously unseen. Argišti I and his son Sarduri II had granaries built in Anzavurtepe, as is also documented by inscriptions.
literature
- Kemal Balkan: A Urartian temple on Anzavurtepe and inscriptions discovered here. Anatolia 5, 1960, 99-113.
- Emel Oybak Dönmez: Urartian crop plant remains from Patnos (Aǧrı), Eastern Turkey. Anatolian Studies 53, 2003, 89-95.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Н. В. Арутюнян, Корпус уратсқих қлинообразных надписеӣ. Ереван, Гитутюн 2001, 17
- ↑ Н. В. Арутюнян, Корпус уратсқих қлинообразных надписеӣ. Ереван, Гитутюн 2001, 18