A(nother) Urartian Royal Bowl Property of Sarduri (I), Son of Lutipri, from Karmir-blur, Stored in Hermitage Museum
Novikova, Anna; Bonfanti, Annarita, and Dan, Roberto · 2025
Reinterprets a ribbed bronze bowl from Karmir-blur inscribed with the name of King Sarduri as the earliest known bronze inscription of Sarduri, son of Lutipri, the first Urartian sovereign. A second Hermitage bowl bearing a similar inscription shares the same features and is likewise attributed to Sarduri I. Together the two vessels form the missing link between the earliest ribbed bowl and the later plain bronze vessels associated with subsequent Urartian kings. The article thus revises the chronology of Urartian royal metalwork and inscriptions.
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Novikova, Anna; Bonfanti, Annarita, and Dan, Roberto 2025. A(nother) Urartian Royal Bowl Property of Sarduri (I), Son of Lutipri, from Karmir-blur, Stored in Hermitage Museum. Armeniaca. International Journal of Armenian Studies, Vol. 4 (2025), Archaeology (Edizioni Ca' Foscari, Venice); DOI 10.30687/arm/2974-6051/2025/01/001. https://doi.org/10.30687/arm/2974-6051/2025/01/001
What this offers a reader
A tight, technical piece of archaeology on Urartu: good for anyone working on ancient Armenia.
Peer-reviewed (record explicitly flags peer review); Roberto Dan is a leading Urartologist.
Primary evidence from the Urartian layer of our history, the period most often flattened in politicized narratives.
Two bronze bowls in the Hermitage turn out to bear the oldest inscriptions of Urartu's first king.
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