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Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Dr. Wolfram Kleiss, langj�igem Leiter der Au�nstelle Teheran des Deutschen Arch�ogischen Instituts. Einband leicht berieben. Text auch englisch. Mit Widmung des Verfassers. - Museum. The Urartians founded a Kingdom in the district of Van around the first millennium B.C., expanding by force within two centuries to on area including Aleppo and Antioch. In the 9th, 8th and 7th centuries B.C. craftsmanship and art attained the highest quality. The Urartian temples and palaces with their monumental buttress-like structures were able to compete with Assyrian architecture. In particular, the bronze crafts of this civilisation became some of the most sought-after objects of import in the Near Eastern, Phrygian, Greek and Etruscan states. The art of the old Persian (Iranian) empires, and that of the Scythians, was greatly indebted to Urartian and Ionian art shows considerable influence from Urartian art. The Urartians had reached a peak in agriculture as well. Canals and artificial lakes, of which one has survived, were used in the irrigation of land. Due to their perfect state of preservation, the bronze objects in the Adana Regional Museum have produced ample material for stylistic research and contribute to our better understanding of the civilisation of Urartu.

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