چکیده:
The area between three Lakes Sevan, Van and Urmia was the main region of the Urartians from 9th to 6th centuries
b.c. Accordingly, a number of Urartian inscriptions may be found within the borders of present-day Iran. Some of these
inscriptions are inscribed over bullae. Urartian bullae were produced mainly to seal vessels. Twelve Urartian inscribed bullae
have been already found at the Urartian fortress of Bastam. There is another newly and accidentally found one from Bastam.
This bulla has an inscription carved over it and three stamp seal impressions have been made over it. The inscription content
is “100 seal” and the seals are badly damaged but seem identical. The trace of a strip passed from inside of the bulla is visible.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Newly Found Bulla from Urartian Site of Bastam in Iran Maryam Dara* Research Institute of Cultural Heritage and Tourism, Iran Gholam Shirzade Western Azerbaijan Province, Iran Received: May 25, 2017 Accepted: September 7, 2017 The area between three Lakes Sevan, Van and Urmia was the main region of the Urartians from 9th to 6th centuries b.
Abstract: Keywords: bulla, seals, Urartu, Bastam, Cunieform Inscriptions.
These pieces of evidence provide us with valuable information about the Urartians and especially about their recording system for storing details Maryam Dara* Research Institute of Cultural Heritage and Tourism (RICHT), Research Center for Linguistics, Inscriptions and Texts, Tehran, Iran.
The inscriptions and seal impressions on the bullae had variant meanings in the warehouses (Salvini 1979: 134).
This bulla has been accidentally found in Bastam site and has the inscription containing "100 seal".
According to Salvini (1988: 135) most of the Bastam inscribed bullae were used as pendants or sealings.
Also, Salvini (1988: 141) has mentioned an inscribed bulla (Ba 78-1283) from the second season of excavations in Bastam as an ambiguous inscription and has not referred to it later in the fourth volume of his corpus (CTU 2012).
There is another bulla with the inscription "100 seal" found in Bastam but with a completely different and mythical seal impression on it (Dara 2017: 240).
) There are also stamp or cylinder seal impressions over most 1979 Bastam: Ausgrabungen in den urartäischen Anlagen 1972-1975, of the inscribed bullae.