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Scythian Ceremonial Swords and the Art of the Van Kingdom (Urartu)
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Scythian Ceremonial Swords and the Art of the Van Kingdom (Urartu)
Among the most arresting objects to survive from the Early Iron Age Near East are gold-sheathed ceremonial short swords — akinakai — whose scabbards blend the restless “animal style” of the Eurasian steppe with the courtly iconography of the Van Kingdom, the state that modern scholarship knows by its Assyrian name, Urartu, and that ruled the Armenian Highland from the 9th to the early 6th century BC. A sword of the type shown above — a bird- or …
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