RT Article
T1 A Bit of Assyrian Imperial Culture
JF Altorientalische Forschungen
VO 48
IS 1
SP 118
OP 124
A1 Radner, Karen
LA English
PB De Gruyter
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/180147611X
AB A key find from the 2018 excavations at the settlement mound of Gird-e Rūstam (Gird-i Rostam) in the easternmost part of the Kurdish Autonomous Region of Iraq, directly on the border with Iran, is an inscribed pottery sherd that can be assigned to the Neo-Assyrian period, more specifically the late 8 th or 7 th century BC. Albeit small, the sherd certainly belongs to a “carinated bowl”, which is a typical wine-drinking vessel of that time, and preserves a few signs of a cuneiform inscription in Akkadian language and Neo-Assyrian script. It is suggested that the reconstructed text contains mention of the local toponym Birtu-ša-Adad-remanni “Fortress of Adad-remanni”. This place is located in the border region between the Assyrian Empire and the kingdom of Mannea, which raises the possibility that Gird-e Rūstam could be identified with Birtu-ša-Adad-remanni.
K1 wine consumption
K1 cuneiform inscription
K1 carinated bowl
K1 Mannea
K1 Assyrian Empire
K1 Iron Age
K1 Gird-e Rūstam (Gird-i Rostam)
DO 10.1515/aofo-2021-0008