TY - JOUR AU - Bonfanti, Annarita AU - Cesaretti, Andrea AU - Dan, Roberto PY - 2022/05/05 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Between the Greater and Lesser Caucasus: An Analysis of the Belts from the Tli Burial Ground and Their Contexts (Graves 40b, 215b, 425) JF - Archäologischer Anzeiger JA - AA VL - 2 IS - SE - Artikel DO - 10.34780/5660-s6ml UR - https://publications.dainst.org/journals/aa/article/view/2851 SP - 1–15 (§) AB - <p>This article presents a new study of three burial contexts from the important Tli graveyard located in the Southern Caucasus. The three tombs contained bronze belts with features mainly pertaining to an Assyro-Urartian tradition. An analysis of the belts’ iconographic apparatuses is given, together with a new chronological position proposed for the belts and the tombs: our idea is that a possible date for them should be within the period between the 7th and 6th centuries B.C.E. The analysis showed, moreover, that the Tli necropolis must be considered a great example of the complex contacts and cultural exchanges between multiple realities located both in the Caucasus and in the Mesopotamian region.</p> ER -