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Urartu: Reframing Assyria’s Enigmatic Neighbor
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Friends of Â鶹ֱ²¥ present the next webinar in our monthly series on March 23, 2023, at 3:00 pm EDT, featuring Prof. Tiffany Earley-Spadoni and moderated by Prof. Petra Creamer (Emory University). Urartu was a powerful empire located in the imposing highlands of modern-day eastern Turkey, Armenia, and western Iran in the 9th to the 7th centuries BCE. In this lecture, Prof. Earley-Spadoni will provide historical context for Urartu, a thriving, but often overlooked expansionary state. The Urartians left behind an impressive array of archaeological remains ranging from vibrant material culture to evocative texts carved in living stone. Despite its undeniable significance and unique features, the state is frequently framed as being a minor development resulting from the growth of the Assyrian empire to its south.
Rather than being organized around large cities like other empires which had come before, Urartu relied on a rural, regional network of forts, fortresses, and fire beacon stations to defend against threats and impose sovereignty upon the mountainous landscape. The fortified networks allowed for the spread of information and the coordination of military and 
administrative activities, which helped the kingdom consolidate its power over neighboring regions.
The talk will conclude with a call to reframe the way we think about Urartu. Prof. Earley-Spadoni will suggest that this goal can be achieved by studying Urartian materials and texts as developments that combined local practices and reinterpreted broader regional traditions. Ultimately, she will argue that Urartu must be understood as a historically specific case, and a topic worthy of much more dedicated study.
Tiffany Earley-Spadoni is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Central Florida. Her research consists of spatially-oriented investigations of expansionary state development in the ancient Near East. She received her PhD in Near Eastern Studies from the Johns Hopkins University.
Her current archaeological field projects are the Kurd Qaburstan Project in Iraq and the Vayots Dzor Fortress Landscapes Project in Armenia. Kurd Qaburstan, likely to be identified with the ancient city of Qabra, was a more than 100 ha. walled city with major occupations dating to the Middle and Late Bronze Age periods. The project examines the spatial distribution and character of large-scale public architecture, domestic remains, craft production loci, and fortifications. The organization and experience of urban space is further explored through evidence for distinct neighborhoods and central planning.
In addition to her work on northern Mesopotamian urbanism, the creation of fortified regional networks in response to systematic warfare is the focus of her field work in Armenia. These investigations have revealed evidence for elaborate systems of fire beacon communication and numerous forts and fortresses.
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