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Measured Plans of Urartian Fortresses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

C. A. Burney  and
G. R. J. Lawson
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Extract

This article comprises descriptive and explanatory notes on a number of plans made during a plane-table survey carried out by the authors in the Van region in the summer of 1957. In addition to the plans and photographs, there are two details, one being an elevation. The form of publication is partly determined by the appearance of sketch-plans of most of these Urartian fortresses in a preliminary article. Apart from correction of certain errors in that article, the general information given therein will not be repeated. For the position of the various fortresses reference should be made to the map published in that preliminary report. To the sites marked thereon should be added two more, Aznavur and Kancıklı, both near Patnos, on the road north-west from Erciş. to Karaköse and thus some way north of Lake Van. Both are of major importance: Aznavur lies one mile north-west of Patnos and Kancıklı some nine miles south-east.

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Research Article
Information
Anatolian Studies , Volume 10 , December 1960 , pp. 177 - 196
Copyright
Copyright © The British Institute at Ankara 1960

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References

1 Mr. Gordon Lawson, A.R.I.B.A., is responsible for the drawing of all the plans; without him the survey would have been impossible.

2 AS. VII (1957), pp. 37–53Google Scholar.

3 ibid., fig. 1.

4 ibid., p. 45 (the so-called Lower Town).

5 König, F. W., Handbuch der chaldischen Inschriften, Vol. I (Graz, 1955)Google Scholar, nos. 2, 3, and 4a–f (pp. 2 and 37–8, and pls. 1–3).

6 Contrary to my original opinion (AS. VII, p. 44Google Scholar) that the buttressed terrace wall was an outer wall of the Citadel.

7 Published by P. Hulin in this volume, pp. 205–7, with photograph (Pl; XXVIIa) showing the site.

8 See Handbuch, nos, 46, 55a and 72 (Vol. I, pp. 9, 11, 14, 73–5 and pls. 37, 41, 49Google Scholar; Vol. II (Graz, 1957), p. 82: and a fourth found on the south-east slope below the Citadel and published by P. Hulin in this volume, p. 205.

9 ibid., pp. 48–9, where it is wrongly described as an “inner keep”.

10 AS. VII, p. 48Google Scholar.

11 ibid., p. 49.

12 Otherwise called Karataş. See Handbuch, nos. 109–110 (Vol. I, p. 21 and pl. 86; Vol. II, pp. 133–4).

13 AS. VIII (1958), pp. 216–7Google Scholar.

14 Handbuch, no. 140 (Vol. II, pp. 165–6 find pl. 111)Google Scholar.

15 AS. VII, pp. 41 and 51Google Scholar.

16 Handbuch, no. 39 (Vol. I, pp. 8 and 71, and pl. 34)Google Scholar.