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Karmir Blur

Also known as: Teishebaini, Karmir-Blur

A multi-period locality with Bronze Age antecedents and a much later Urartian fortress-city.

Evidence confidence: moderate
Awaiting expert reviewSouthern Russia and South Caucasus research expansion
Review and provenance

Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.

Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.

Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.

Chronology

Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.

Preferred assertion

1200 BCE–600 BCE

Precision: approximate

  • informs · provides site or sequence evidence
    Karmir Blur Archaeological Site — American University of Armenia, Acopian Center for the Environment
    Locator: Relevant site report, synthesis, or gazetteer record
  • informs · provides site or sequence evidence
    The Kingdom of Urartu — Yervand H. Grekyan (2023)
    Locator: Relevant site report, synthesis, or gazetteer record

Research description

The main Teishebaini phase lies after the primary interval. This record prevents later Urartian architecture from being projected onto earlier archaeology.

Properties and assignments

A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.

Multi-period sequence
What does this label mean?

The site preserves several distinct occupation or burial phases that must not be flattened into one event.

Full property definition

Why does this record have this property?

Occupation, cemetery use, production, and political association changed through time. Each historical claim must be tied to its own phase.

near certainStatus: proposed

Evidence and sources

  • supports · provides site or sequence evidence
    Karmir Blur Archaeological Site — American University of Armenia, Acopian Center for the Environment

    Source linked to entity record site_srsc1_karmir_blur.


    Locator: Relevant site report, synthesis, or gazetteer record
  • supports · provides site or sequence evidence
    The Kingdom of Urartu — Yervand H. Grekyan (2023)

    Source linked to entity record site_srsc1_karmir_blur.


    Locator: Relevant site report, synthesis, or gazetteer record

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