Manuel Castelluccia, R. Dan

ISMEO, Roma (manuel.castelluccia@gmail.com) (roberto_dan@hotmail.it)

Keywords: Urartu, quivers, bronze articles, Iron Age, Assyrian art, Urartian art 

The Urartian Kingdom have yielded the arguably largest corpus of metal artefacts of the ancient Near East, though their exact provenance is often unknown. The aim of this paper is to present all the items of iron quivers from excavations in the territory of the Urartian Kingdom. These are categorized by their ornamental compositions.