History Museum of Armenia
Bronze Age silver goblet engraved with a royal hunt, feast and battle in miniature detail.
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This guide to the History Museum of Armenia in Yerevan begins with a fist-sized silver cup unearthed in 1987 by archaeologist Vahan Hovhannisyan in a Bronze Age tomb near Karashamb, buried some forty-one centuries ago. It follows the drinking vessel band by band, from a wounded hunter refusing to fall to a king reclining at a feast with a harpist and fan-bearers in attendance, all hammered into six rings of tiny figures. Archaeologists still argue over which myth the twenty-five people and thirty-six animals on it are telling.
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