The army of the ancient Kingdom of Urartu
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Topic: The army of the ancient Kingdom of Urartu
Posted By: Druzhina
Subject: The army of the ancient Kingdom of Urartu
Date Posted: 18-Dec-2015 at 04:47
For information on, and drawings of, Urartu soldiers see http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Ancient/Urartu.htm - Urartu: The Kingdom of Van, Opposition for the Assyrians, an article by Clive Naseby
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http://www.warfare.altervista.org/WRG/AEofEA-84-Urartian_Infantryman.htm - Urartian Infantryman in Armies and Enemies of Ancient Egypt and Assyria, 3200BC to 612BC by Alan Buttery
http://www.warfare.altervista.org/WRG/AEofEA-87-Urartian_Chief.htm - Urartian Chief by Alan Buttery
http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Ancient/Central_Asia-50-52.htm - Urartian Bronze quiver & helmet: embossed with horsemen and chariots, belonging to Sardur II, 7thC BC. State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Ancient/Central_Asia-53.htm - Statuette of soldier. Urartian, 8th-7thC BC. Musée du Louvre
Druzhina
http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Ancient/Ancient.htm - Ancient Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers
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http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Ottoman/Janissary.htm - Ottoman Janissaries.htm , http://warfare.altervista.org/Persia/nadir_bio.htm - Nadir Shah Afshar of Persia
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Posted By: Druzhina
Date Posted: 26-Dec-2015 at 18:47
The illustrations by Alan Buttery may not be ethnic Uratians, but, Iranians from the western Zagros mountains.
The http://www.warfare.altervista.org/WRG/AofANE-167-Iranian_Warrior-8C.htm - Iranian Warrior, 8th Century BC, in Armies of the Ancient Near East 3,000 BC to 539 BC by Nigel Stillman & Nigel Tallis is based on http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Ancient/Khorsabad-Room_14-Relief_1-2.htm - sculptures of Sargon II at Dur-Sharrukin (Khorsabad; 'Sargon's city'), room 14, 'The Assyrians Besiege and Assault the city of Pazashi (Panzish), in 715BC'
http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Ancient/Urartu.htm - Manna is on the map - south of Lake Urmia within the maximum extent of the Urartian kingdom, so Mannai warriors could appear in a Uratian army as auxiliaries or allies. Zikirtu is just east of Manna.
A similar source is http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Ancient/Khorsabad-Room_2-Relief-22.htm - sculptures of Sargon II at Dur-Sharrukin (Khorsabad; 'Sargon's city'), room 2, 'The Assyrians capture Ganguhtu, Bit Bagaya, and Kiundau, and accept the surrender of Tikrakka', in 716BC
One man http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Ancient/Khorsabad-Room_14-Relief_1-2.htm - (upper right) has a shield with chevron pattern . The theory of its construction may be influenced by a http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Ancient/Shield-Dura-Europos-Yale.htm - Sassanid leather and reed shield, from Dura-Europos, at Yale University Art Gallery . http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Ancient/Khorsabad-Room_2-Relief-22.htm - Other Western Zagros Iranians have shields with brick or cross-hash pattern . The http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Ancient/Khorsabad-Room_2-Relief-18-dt.htm - shield grip is shown.
Most of the defenders wear the skin-cloak on the right side. An arm hole, as suggested by Stillman & Tallis, rather than a short sleeve may be more likely. An http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Ancient/Khorsabad-Room_2-Relief-18-dt.htm - Iranian warrior in room 2 has a skin-cloak over his left shoulder (perhaps with an arm-hole) even though he has a shield. Some http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Ancient/Khorsabad-Room_14-Relief_11.htm - Iranian prisoners have skin-cloaks with short sleeve on the left .
Only a minority of http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Ancient/Khorsabad-Room_2-Relief-19-dt.htm - Iranians wear laced boots or patterned hems .
Druzhina
http://www.warfare.altervista.org/index.htm - Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers
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