Teišebai URU

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Teišebai URU (Armenia)
Teišebai ardi
Teišebai ardi
Teisebai (Map of Armenia)

Teišebai URU , also Teišebai ardi ("City of the Weather God"), Teischebai, Teischebani , was the Urartian capital of the Transcaucasian province. Today the place belongs to Armenia .

The ruins of the city are located in a southwestern suburb of Yerevan on the hill Karmir Blur ("Red Hill") on the bank of the Hrasdan (urart. Ildarunia) near the arterial road to Echmiadzin .

Teišebai URU was built by King Rusa II at the beginning of his reign (around 680 BC). Erebuni (Arin-berd) the old capital of the province 'Aza - the Urartean name of this region - was abandoned and the treasure of the city was brought to Teišebai. The city was also a fortress. The city is named after the weather god Teišeba . At the same time a temple of the imperial god Ḫaldi was built.

The construction of the buildings lasted until the time of King Rusa III. on. The total area of ​​the city was 0.44 km 2 . Soviet excavations under the direction of Boris Borissowitsch Piotrowski in the citadel brought to light wooden chairs with bronze fittings, a statue of Teišeba and many gold and silver objects. Armor, helmets and shields, ivory objects, stone seals and ceramic vessels have also been found. The citadel was probably built at the beginning of the 6th century BC. Chr. Destroyed.

Another place called Teišebai URU, which was founded by Rusa I , was located on Lake Sevan and has been identified with the fortress Odzaberd .

  • The reconstructed entrance to the fortress

  • Floor plan of Teišebai

  • Remains of a wall at Karmir Blur

literature

  • Igor M. Diakonoff : The Pre-History of the Armenian People. Caravan Books, New York 1988. ISBN 0-88206-039-2 .
  • Boris Borisovich Piotrovskii: Urartu: the kingdom of Van and its art. Adams & Mackay, London 1967.
  • Boris Borisovich Piotrovskii: The Ancient Civilization of Urartu. London 1969.
  • Mirjo Salvini: History and Culture of the Urartians . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1995, ISBN 3-534-01870-2 .

Web links

Commons : Teišebai URU  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 40 ° 9 ′  N , 44 ° 27 ′  E

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mirjo Salvini: History and Culture of the Urartians . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1995, ISBN 3-534-01870-2 , p. 195.
  2. ↑ For the history of the city under Rusa II see Mirjo Salvini: History and Culture of the Urartians . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1995, ISBN 3-534-01870-2 , pp. 103-106, 128.
  3. ↑ Article on Teišebai in the Britannica.
  4. ↑ Г. А. Меликишвили, Урартские клинообразные надписи. Москва: Издательство АН СССР, 1960, No. 266
  5. ↑ Mirjo Salvini: History and Culture of the Urartians . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1995, ISBN 3-534-01870-2 , p. 186.