“At the foot of Ararat”, an exposition devoted to Boris Piotrovsky’s 100th anniversary, opened in the state Ermitage of St.Petersburg, Russia. Academician Boris Piotrovsky was a celebrated archaeologist, orientalist, founder of the Russian Urartology, who studied archeology of Caucasus most of his life, and director of the Ermitage from 1908 till 1990.
The exposition includes pieces from collections of the Museum of History of Armenia and Museum of Erebuni fortress.
The exposition is divided into several parts.
The first part includes pieces of the XIII-II millennium BC from different archaeological complexes on the territory of Armenia: small plastic art, ceramics, golden and bronze items, jewelry.
The second part includes pieces of the Urartian time, the IX-VII centuries BC: bronze and clay sculptures of gods, stone and bone figures of animals, ceramics, golden and silver jewelry and vessels, as well as bronze armour, items of martial equipment and objects of worship with dedicatory inscriptions of the Urartian kings and several clay tablets with cuneiform texts. A big part of the Urartian memorials was discovered during excavations of the Teishebaini fortress, situated in the western suburb of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. The excavations were held by a joint expedition of the Armenian Academy of Science and the Ermitage in 1939 – 1971 under the direction of Boris Piotrovsky.
Pieces belonging to the third part of the exposition are dated VI-V centuries BC and represent the post-Urartian epoch on the territory of Armenia.
The last part includes glass items of the medieval Dvin of the VIII-XIII centuries AD. This is the heritage of a well-known scientist and archaeologist Ripsime Djanpoladian, the wife of Boris Piotrovsky. She devoted her life to the study of the medieval Armenian culture and made a great contribution into investigation of the Armenian glass-making.
The exhibition is open till January 25, 2009.
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