This fragment is decorated with two identical royal or religious processions, a typical stylistic and iconographic representation. What the footmen carry remains unknown. The Urartian cuneiform inscription above the top panel reads: "From the arsenal of Argishti."
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Title:Plaque fragment with chariot scenes inscribed with the Urartian royal name Argishti
By 1971, private collection (Kellner 1974, p. 50, pl. 3); acquired by the Museum in 1976, purchased from Sotheby's, London, December 8th, 1975, lot no. 79.
“Urartu: A Metalworking Center in the First Millennium B.C.E.,” The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, May 28–October 7, 1991.
Kellner, Hans-Jörg. 1974. "Ein neuer Medaillon-Typus aus Urartu." Situla 14/15, Razprave Narodnega Muzeja v. Ljubliani, p. 50, pl. 3.
Calmeyer, Peter. 1975. "Barsombündel im 8. und 7. jahrhundert v. Chr." In Wandlungen: Studien zur Antiken und Neueren Kunst, Festschrift E. Homann-Wedeking. Waldsassen-Bayern: Stiftland-Verlag, pp. 11-15, pl.1.
Sotheby's. 1975. Catalogue of Antiquities and Islamic Art, 8 December 1975, London, p. 37, lot 79.
Annual Report of the Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 106 (Jul. 1,1975 - Jun. 30, 1976), pp. 29-30.
Kellner, Hans-Jörg. 1976. Urartu: Ein Wiederentdeckter Rivale Assyriens, exh. cat., Prähistrorische Staatssammlung, Munich, no. 145, pl. 7.
Kendall, Timothy. 1977. "Urartian Art in Boston: Two Bronze Belts and a Mirror." Boston Museum Bulletin 75, p. 33, fig. 3.
Muscarella, Oscar W. 1979. "Plaque." Notable Acquisitions (Metropolitan Museum of Art) 1975-1979, p. 10.
Markoe, Glenn. 1982. "Barsom or Staff? An Inscribed Urartian Plaque." Metropolitan Museum Journal 17, pp. 5-8, fig. 3.
Özgen, Engin. 1983. "The Urartian Chariot Reconsidered, I: Representational Evidence, 9th-7th Centuries, B.C." Anatolica 10, p. 117, figs. 4, 5.
Calmeyer, Peter. 1986. "Zu Einem Ziselierten Bronzehelm des 8. Jahrhunderts." Archaeologische Mitteilungen Aus Iran 19, p. 86, no. 43.
Muscarella, Oscar W. 1988. Bronze and Iron: Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, pp. 428-429, no. 576.
Kellner, Hans-Jörg. 1991. Gürtelbleche aus Urartu. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, pp. 14-15, fig. 8.
Merhav, Rivka, ed. 1991. Urartu: A Metalworking Center in the First Millennium B.C.E., exh. cat., Israel Museum, p. 63, no.2.
Bilgi, Önder. 2012. Anadolu'da Insan Görüntüleri: Klasik Ç a ¬ğ Öncesi. Istanbul: Aygaz, p. 539, no. R260.
Pinnock, Frances. 2019. "Note about an Ewer of Probable Anatolian Production, from One of the Tombs of the Assyrian Queens at Nimrud." In Over the Mountains and Far Away: Studies in Near Eastern History and Archaeology Presented to Mirjo Salvini on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday, edited by Pavel S. Avetisyan, Roberto Dan and Yervand H. Grekyan. Oxford: Archaeopress, p. 431, fig. 7.
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