Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean

Metsamor: report after the 2019 season

2020, 29, No. 2

Krzysztof Jakubiak

0000-0003-3123-7564

DOI

10.31338/uw.2083-537X.pam29.2.11

Publication date

31.12.2020

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open access

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CC BY 4.0 Int.

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Humanities

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archeology

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English

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Abstract

The 2019 season in Metsamor confirmed the functioning of the settlement in the Urartian period. House II, discovered during the fieldwork, is the first architectural structure built at the beginning of the Early Iron Age period which, after some possible rearrangements, retained control over the Aras valley during the Urartian kingdom. Pottery discovered there confirms that the already excavated part of the settlement was extensively used after the fall of Urartu. A pit grave dated to the 7th century BC yielded a late Urartian cylinder seal.

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