What Important Role Did Almost 3,000 Year-Old Royal Bowls Play In Prestigious Urartu?
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Assyrian ribbed vessels represent elite pottery and metallic tableware that belonged to royals. They were found in the magnificent Northwest Palace of the Neo-Assyrian King Ashurnasirpal II (883–859 BC) at Nimrud, as well as in the royal tombs of Assyrian queens.
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Urartian rulers adopted and transformed this model. The inscribed ribbed bowl of Sarduri I marks the major change in Assyrian vessels into the classic Urartian plain bowls, including their external shape, structural attributes, and form.
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