On a Painted Burial Jar from Tigranakert of Artsakh
Gabrielyan, Armine · 2023
Studies a painted jar burial excavated in 2018 in the eastern tomb field of Tigranakert of Artsakh: a large karas decorated in red with ornamental and figurative bands. Its widest register shows a deer-hunting scene unfolding on both sides of a dense tree read as the Tree of Life. Gabrielyan traces the motif through petroglyphs of the Armenian Highlands, Iron Age bronze belts, Achaemenid glyptic and Sasanian toreutics. She argues the scene had ritual meaning on a funerary vessel, overcoming death through struggle, and situates the jar within the jar-burial funerary culture of Artsakh and Utik in the Late Classical period.
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Gabrielyan, Armine 2023. On a Painted Burial Jar from Tigranakert of Artsakh. Iran and the Caucasus, Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 156–169 (Brill); DOI 10.1163/1573384X-02702002. https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384X-02702002
What this offers a reader
Excavated physical evidence of Armenian material culture in Artsakh, rather than an assertion about it.
Primary excavation report from the Tigranakert of Artsakh project.
We were burying our dead in Artsakh with our own iconography two thousand years ago.
A painted burial jar from Artsakh and the ancient Armenian hunt scene on it.
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