Urartian Cult of the Stelae and New Discoveries at Aznavurtepe and Yeşilalıç (Ashotakert)

IF 0.3 3区哲学 Q2 HISTORY

Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions Pub Date : 2022-06-14 DOI:10.1163/15692124-12341327

Rıfat Kuvanç, Kenan Işık, Bülent Genç, Erkan Konyar

{"title":"Urartian Cult of the Stelae and New Discoveries at Aznavurtepe and Yeşilalıç (Ashotakert)","authors":"Rıfat Kuvanç, Kenan Işık, Bülent Genç, Erkan Konyar","doi":"10.1163/15692124-12341327","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The Urartian Kingdom is recognized for its idiosyncratic religious architecture and ritual practices. Tower-temples (susi) at the peak of citadels, dedicated to the “national” god Ḫaldi, constitute the most essential element of religious architecture. Additionally, cult areas with an altar and uninscribed stelae on pedestals, best known from Erzincan/Altıntepe, demonstrate that there were different types of sanctuaries in the Urartian world. Veneration of stelae is also known from depictions in seal-impressions. Recent discoveries of an open-air sanctuary with stelae at Varto/Kayalıdere and uninscribed stelae at Aznavurtepe and Yeşilalıç bear witness to the wide distribution of this cult. Although discoveries at Altıntepe and Varto/Kayalıdere led to an association of stelae with funerary cults, inscriptions that speak of Ḫaldi worship in front of stelae (pulusi) strongly suggest that stelae sanctuaries on the slopes of citadels must be related with the Ḫaldi cult, in whose name susi and temple complexes (É.BÁRA) were built in citadels.","PeriodicalId":42129,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2022-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15692124-12341327","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Abstract

The Urartian Kingdom is recognized for its idiosyncratic religious architecture and ritual practices. Tower-temples (susi) at the peak of citadels, dedicated to the “national” god Ḫaldi, constitute the most essential element of religious architecture. Additionally, cult areas with an altar and uninscribed stelae on pedestals, best known from Erzincan/Altıntepe, demonstrate that there were different types of sanctuaries in the Urartian world. Veneration of stelae is also known from depictions in seal-impressions. Recent discoveries of an open-air sanctuary with stelae at Varto/Kayalıdere and uninscribed stelae at Aznavurtepe and Yeşilalıç bear witness to the wide distribution of this cult. Although discoveries at Altıntepe and Varto/Kayalıdere led to an association of stelae with funerary cults, inscriptions that speak of Ḫaldi worship in front of stelae (pulusi) strongly suggest that stelae sanctuaries on the slopes of citadels must be related with the Ḫaldi cult, in whose name susi and temple complexes (É.BÁRA) were built in citadels.

查看原文本刊更多论文

乌拉提亚人对石碑的崇拜和在阿兹纳沃特佩和Yeşilalıç的新发现(Ashotakert)

乌拉提亚王国以其独特的宗教建筑和仪式而闻名。塔式神庙(susi)在城堡的顶峰，献给“国家”神Ḫaldi，构成了宗教建筑的最基本元素。此外，有祭坛和基座上未刻石碑的邪教区域，最著名的是Erzincan/Altıntepe，表明乌拉提亚世界有不同类型的避难所。对石碑的崇敬也可以从篆刻的描绘中得知。最近在Varto(网址:Kayalıdere)和Aznavurtepe(网址:Yeşilalıç)发现的露天神庙中有石碑，而在Aznavurtepe(网址:Yeşilalıç)发现的未刻石碑证明了这一邪教的广泛分布。虽然Altıntepe和Varto/Kayalıdere的发现将石碑与丧葬仪式联系在一起，但碑文中提到的在石碑前的Ḫaldi崇拜(pulusi)强烈表明，在城堡斜坡上的石碑避难所一定与Ḫaldi崇拜有关，以其名义susi和寺庙建筑群(É.BÁRA)建在城堡里。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions Multiple-

CiteScore

0.50

自引率

0.00%

发文量

期刊介绍： The Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions (JANER) focuses on the religions of the area commonly referred to as the Ancient Near East encompassing Egypt, Mesopotamia, Syria-Palestine, and Anatolia, as well as immediately adjacent areas under their cultural influence, from prehistoric times onward to the beginning of the common era. JANER thus explicitly aims to include not only the Biblical, Hellenistic and Roman world as part of Ancient Near Eastern civilization but also the impact of its religions on the western Mediterranean. JANER is the only scholarly journal specifically and exclusively addressing this range of topics.