The Faience That Isn’t
In the Erzurum Museum, among the Kura-Araxes terracotta and the Urartian bronzes, my eye was…
Vulcan
This category is about crafts.
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After the Collapse
At some point the mentions of Hayasa disappear from the Hittite annals, suddenly and completely….
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Hayasa, or the Argument About a Name
In the second millennium BC the Hittites arrived in Anatolia. On the prevailing theory this…
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Deer and Birds at Sos Höyük
Last time we were looking at the Kura-Araxes culture of the Early Bronze Age. The…
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Flowers of Sorrow
To continue with the exhibitions. Another that we saw at the art museum in Erzurum…
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Wire, Enamel, and Cauldron
In the museum today I came upon the term for the eastern Turkish jeweller’s craft…
