Urartian Bronze Inscribed Horse Harness Disc in Eastern Azerbaijan Museum

Urartians left pieces of evidence of their domination in North West of Iran. They were extraordinary metalworkers and sometimes wrote the name of the Urartian king on their objects. They sometimes decorated or even inscribed horse equipment with short inscriptions. Some discs from horse harnesses, with or without inscriptions, are found from Urartian kingdom. A similar object exists in Eastern Azerbaijan Museum which is a bronze disc from the horse harness with the inscription of Argishti I. This disc is dedicated to the museum by a rural from Varzaghan. Although the name of the king’s father is not written but epigraphically it is from Argishti I.