The Nakhchivan rock signs were found in 2016 at Agsal between the villages of Ərəfsə and Milax in the Culfa region of Azerbaijan.[1]
Description
editThree rock signs were found in Agsal.[2] A common feature of the rock sign drainage channels is that they are directed towards the canyon, indicating the possibility of fluid flow from them. The presence of rock marks on the graves suggests that some of them were used for cult purposes. The fact that the graves are next to the rock signs and some rock signs are used as wishing wells [3] supports this view. It is interesting that around the Agsal rock shields there is a wishing tree that is visited by today's villagers.
Signs such as those found in Nakhchivan are very common in Southern Azerbaijan and Eastern Anatolia.[4][5]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Bahşeliyev, E., Bahşeliyev, V. (2019). “Urartu Devleti’nin Güney Kafkasya Politikasında Nahçıvan’nın yeri”, AMİSOS, 4, 15-45.
- ^ Bахşəliyеv, Elmar (2021). Urartuların Güney Kafkasya Politikası (in Turkish). Naxçıvan. p. 215.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Belli, O. (2010). Urartu Kaleleri’n deki Anıtsal Kaya işaretleri” - “Monumentale Felszeiehen im Bereich urartäischer Festungsanlagen”, Anadolu Araştırmaları, 11, 2010, p 84
- ^ Konyar, E. (2006). “An Ethno-Archaeological Approach to the ‘Monumental Rock Signs’ in Eastern Anatolia”, Colloquium Anatolicum, V, 113-126.
- ^ Konyar, E. (2008). “Urartu Coğrafyasında Anıtsal Kaya işaretleri: İşlevleri Üzerine Etno-Arkeolojik Bir Yaklaşım”, Muhibbe Darğa Armağanı. İstanbul, 311-320.
Further reading
edit- Elmar, Bakhshaliyev (2021). Urartuların Güney Kafkasya Politikası (in Turkish). Naxçıvan. p. 215.
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