A ''Statuette of a Bird'' from the 15th–14th centuries BC, was found in
Lchashen
Lchashen () is a village in the Sevan Municipality of the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia.
History
The settlement dates back to the 3rd millennium BC. It has a Bronze Age cemetery, a Urartian Iron Age fortress, and a 13th-century church. It i ...
, Armenia. It is now in the
History Museum of Armenia
The History Museum of Armenia () is a museum in Armenia with departments of Archaeology, Numismatics, Ethnography, Modern History and Restoration. It has a national collection of 400,000 objects and was founded in 1920. Of the main collection, 35% ...
's collection under the number 2009-50.
Description
The statuette of a bird is a bronze sculpture of a bird sitting on a pedestal measuring 17.5 x 12.2 x 3.3 cm, with a long neck and tail. Its round, convex eyes formerly had coloured incrustations in the depressions of the center. The body is hollow, and has wedge-shaped openings on the breast and sides to create the wings. The bird's wings, breasts, and tail are decorated by a linear pattern. The pedestal is a square column with an anchorshaped base covered in triangular holes and linear patterns. The anchor ends are terminated by a miniature sculpture of a frog that has bulging eyes and a large mouth.
[Հայացք բրոնզե դարից, Ալբոմ-կատալոգ, Հայաստանի պատմության թանգարան, 2016, 160 էջ: A Glance from the Bronze Age. Yerevan, History Museum of Armenia, 2016, 160 pages.]
Gallery
File:Statuette di uccello XV–XIV sec. a.C. Lchashen Armenia 01.jpg, link=, Statuettes of a Bird from the 15th–14th centuries BC, found in Lchashen, Armenia (History Museum of Armenia, Yerevan)
File:Statuetta di uccello XV–XIV sec. a.C. Lchashen Armenia 07.jpg, link=, 1. Statuette of a Bird from the 15th–14th centuries BC, found in Lchashen, Armenia (History Museum of Armenia, Yerevan)
File:Statuetta di uccello XV–XIV sec. a.C. Lchashen Armenia 05.jpg, link=, 1. Statuette of a Bird from the 15th–14th centuries BC, found in Lchashen, Armenia (History Museum of Armenia, Yerevan)
File:Statuetta di uccello XV–XIV sec. a.C. Lchashen Armenia 04.jpg, link=, 2. Statuette of a Bird from the 15th–14th centuries BC, found in Lchashen, Armenia (History Museum of Armenia, Yerevan)
File:Statuetta di uccello XV–XIV sec. a.C. Lchashen Armenia 02.jpg, link=, 2. Statuette of a Bird from the 15th–14th centuries BC, found in Lchashen, Armenia (History Museum of Armenia, Yerevan)
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Archaeological discoveries in Armenia
History Museum of Armenia
15th-century BC works
References
Further reading
* ''View from the Bronze Age'', album-catalog, History Museum of Armenia, 2010
* Harutyun Mnatsakanyan, ''The Main Stages of Lchashen's Development of Culture'', Yerevan, 1968
* Hasmik Israelian, ''Cults and Beliefs in the Late Bronze Age of Armenia'', Yerevan, 1973
External links
The Main Stages of Lchashen's Development of Culture